Why the Ms Outlook Email Client Scores over Mozilla Thunderbird

When it comes to email clients, the Ms Outlook application rarely has ever experienced any

significant challenge at all till the launch of the Thunderbird application by Mozilla. Propelled by a whole bunch of open source cheerleaders, the Thunderbird application crept its way in several user desktops and managed to notch up a small market share. However the popularity of Thunderbird has not risen as expected and much of it is due to the fact that the Ms Outlook application is still miles ahead of its free peer. Let’ look at what sets Outlook apart

Ease of Use and Seamless Integration

The Outlook application remains the most easy to use software in its class and it can sync with Ms Exchange server. So if you are running Exchange server for intra office emails, it is quite likely that you would stick to Outlook for consistency.

Powerful CRM tools

In the latest editions of Outlook, users can exploit the Business contact manager feature which gives them a plethora of options for customer and account management besides managing leads. In fact Outlook allows its users to create outreach campaigns, track the apparent ROI on them and visualize performance with the help relevant graphical charts. It also gives you the power to run several projects at the same time, create specific tasks and assign them to other team members with effortless ease. Availability of such business friendly features in Ms Outlook is increasingly hampering the adoption of Thunderbird.

Proficient call tracking and Integration with Social Networks

In the current hyper connected world Outlook can help link up to your social networking profiles and track calls in a highly effective manner. Thunderbird unfortunately does not match up and its contact management features too are rickety to say the least.

Remarkable Calendar Feature

The highly interlinked calendar feature of Outlook holds it way above Thunderbird when it comes to aspects like scheduling meetings and sending out invitations. If that was not all you get the choice of having different calendars as per your need, say one for office and one for home. Outlook has also evolved with time and its calendar feature can be synced up with the iPhone and most Android devices.

There is a chink in Outlook’s armor

Most Outlook users would never trade their application for another piece of software as Outlook has over the year become something of a habit. However despite its stellar reputation and massive fan following Outlook does have a chink in its armor and it relates to its susceptibility to crashes. When your Outlook application crashes, the underlying PST file can get corrupted and this puts all your valuable data at risk. To deal with such a potential calamity you need to remain prepared and keep a proficient outlook repair tool like DataNumen Outlook repair handy. Its class leading recovery engine is capable of extracting your data from nearly any media type and it can maintain the integrity of all Outlook data elements including contacts and notes.

Author Introduction:

Alan Chen is President & Chairman of DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including sql recovery and outlook repair software products. For more information visit http://www.datanumen.com/