Re: Total Desperation...
The Outlook thing certainly holds me with Windows. I can keep my calendar on my phone, the family desktop and my laptop in sync. I can get a degree of interoperability with an email account shared on all three (and some message rules for forwarding from other email accounts to it).
A few years back I was able to synch via a Gmail account, until Google pulled that option, But now I find myself relying on Outlook. Not for the email, but for the calendar.
Anything else, I don't use Microsoft s/w anymore anyway. It's Libre Office, Pale Moon and various open source or freeware products for graphics and the like. But calendar keeping and carrying across devices and I'm tied to Outlook- as ghastly as it is. And it is ghastly. Contacts handling alone would qualify it in the grim to crappy range.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
