[dj_mocok]

If I'm not mistaken, it's sort of email isn't it?

By usually if I wanna check my emails, I'll open my browser, go to the site (eg. Yahoo/gmail), then log in. So what do I need to use Microsoft Outlook for?

It looks like everyone is using it (especially office people?), so can someone explain to me about Outlook please?

 

[madmax7]

It's an e-mail client that about 90% of all offices use.

 

[Jubei]

Well, if you possess a non-web-based email account, you need an email client and you might use Outlook. It offers other features including notes, calendar, contacts lists, etc, and is used mostly in office environments. The program can also track file activities (i.e. when you have opened and edited files) of MS Office applications. It is much more powerful than web-based email.

In the days before reliable web-based email, these sort of programs (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora and the email client in Netscape Navigator) were essential. Today, for personal use, many have shifted to web-based mail. It seems Outlook is the norm in most offices I have visited, but a few use Lotus Notes (or whatever it is called these days) and say it is more powerful and customizable.

 

[blessingx]

I use it for collecting virii.

 

[Pars]

Yeah, the funniest definition of Outlook that I read went something along the lines of:

A virus distribution client with limited email functionality...

how true

 

[AuroraProject]

Email, contacts and address book management, calendar and task management, syncronisation between mobile devices to keep all your data sorted.

 

[pkshiu]

Top Ten uses for MS Outlook:

10. keep your calendar and share it with your office worker if they don't want to use google calendar
9. Keep all your contacts, as in address book.
8. Free up all your time after loosing your to do list that you kept on MS Outlook because it is so hard to use.
7. Syncing your address book and calendar with your palm/nokia/sony phone
6. Book conference room at work because they keep the conference room schedule on the exchange server
5. Make the start of the day more enjoyable at the office because you can go down to starbucks and get a latte while waiting for your laptop to sync up the emails for the day.
4. Keep a journal. (You know there is a journal function in outlook, right?)
3. Hide your personal emails from work because you can't get your ISP's email to work on Outlook.
2. Send emails with cute backgrounds and multi-color fonts to your friend that they cannot read, and....
1. download viruses !!

 

[Lou Erickson]

First, there are two completely different versions of Outlook. One is "Outlook Express" and the other is "Outlook".

Outlook Express is a free e-mail and Usenet News reader. I prefer a client to using a web-based mailer for various reasons, and OE is not bad. (Not what I use, but not bad.)

The full Outlook is part of Microsoft Office. It also handles e-mail, but includes contact management and event/calendar support. The reason so many offices use it is that when you have a Microsoft Exchange Server, the shared calendaring is amazingly useful and powerful. The Exchange Server does some great things, and Outlook is now you get to them.

If you're happy with your web mail, that's all you need. I find it unusable with the volume of mail I get every day.

 

[dj_mocok]

I see. So basically Outlook is used in most offices?

So in office, does everyone has their own outlook account (eg. login&password) and then you have all the personal lists and calendar notes, or one office shares the same outlook?

 

[003]

I use Mozilla Thunderbird.

 

[3x331m]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_mocok /img/forum/go_quote.gif I see. So basically Outlook is used in most offices? So in office, does everyone has their own outlook account (eg. login&password) and then you have all the personal lists and calendar notes, or one office shares the same outlook?

Each person has his/her own account, but everyone can share the same directory. It's a typical client/server mode.

 

[fordgtlover]

Outlook is a personal mail client. Where someone has a central mail server that collects mail on behalf of someone who has an account on a particular mail server and then the client logs into the server using outlook to download (or colllect) their mail.

 

[dj_mocok]

Is it hard to learn to use Outlook and its features?

 

[jpelg]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_mocok /img/forum/go_quote.gif Is it hard to learn to use Outlook and its features?

Not at all.

In an Exchange server environment (office), Outlook gives the option of working in real-time or in an off-line mode. In the former, the PC (client) is viewing the database (server) information as it occurs. In the latter, Outlook synchronizes with the server by downloading information to the PC when the user requests (connects).

In a POP-mail environment (like most people's ISP), Outlook operates in off-line mode all the time.

 

[meat01]

Outlook also has a good web mail client, so that you can check your email and access your calender and emails when you are not in the office.