Following on from my previous post on using Gmail.
The slick web interface of Gmail is tops. In fact, I now find that I am even using Gmail over Outlook when at home.
Here’s a nice feature about Gmail that is simply better than Outlook (and yes, I’m using Outlook 2002 – having said that, I moved from Outlook 97 at work to Outlook 2003, and found that I lost speed due to the poor interface of O2003 – another story):
You write an email to someone, press send, and then realise you forgot to say something. In my books good netiquette means you should continue on the conversation… so you should reply to your sent message. In Outlook, if you click Reply on a sent item, it wants to send the message to you – not helpful. In Gmail, it’s smart, and asssumes you want to send it to the other person.
Gmail even handles conversations and search far better than Outlook, features you would have thought that MS should have got right by now. I see they still haven’t incorporated Lookout into Outlook by default.
But, why do email clients still not read the word “attach” or variations of (e.g. “attached”) and ask if you meant to send an attachment (when you haven’t attached on)?
Agree Gmail is slick…
But don’t agree about OL2003’s UI – I think it’s brilliant… And I need email with my calender, contacts, and tasks…