Microsoft Outlook 2007 (PC) (CD-ROM)

A step backwards I was using outlook from Office XP. Thought it might be worth upgrading. Outlook 2007 seems to be less reliable. I've reinstalled it several times but there are problems with setting the default email account, and the application keeps on opening up in safe mode. It can't even cope with HTML email. I've gone back to Office XP. Shouldn't have wasted my money.

How much ???? Are Microsoft mad? This is a very nice piece of software but lets face it, in this day and age, a £25 one. There's absolutely no justification for an e-mail client as popular as this one to be a staggering £80 plus. I also agree its ludicrous that its not part of the Student edition. The fact that Word, Excel and OneNote combined is cheaper says it all.

AMAZING! This is a fantastic email client. I have just changed from Windows Live Mail and I am telling you that this is an amazing product. People have been saying that it uses Word to Render its email and all the email looks horrible but to be honest I have not told the difference. Though in a way it was a bit of a silly move my Microsoft to do this.

Good apart from HTML emails I bought this because I had bought a pocket PC PDA and needed to sync it. I had used Outlook 2003 at work so knew it would be a very good organiser for email / calendar/tasks. This 2007 version has a new to-do pane which is very useful, and the new menu system is a bit better (not that 2003 was bad). Biggest reason not to upgrade from 2003 is that Microsoft have changed the engine for displaying HTML emails to a worse one (citing security as the reason). So some emails that showed perfectly in Outlook 2003 become poorly laid out in the 2007 version. Hence 4 not 5 stars. By the way I bought from dabs.com and got next day delivery, Amazon were quoting 4-6 weeks.

Excellent email client I got a 60 trial of Outlook 2007 with my new mobile phone. As it all hooked into the phones active sync unlike Thunderbird I was using at the time I thought I may as well install it and see what it was like. It was so good I immediately bought a license for it. The user interface is well presented, much better than the earlier versions. The level of customisation is very good and there's a lot of information on the initial screen (if you want it). A slight quirk is that Microsoft's much vaunted ribbon interface doesn't make an appearance until you actually open an email which makes the interface a little dis-jointed, but the way it ties into Word's formatting tools and OneNote make up for this. A word of advice though - if you get a trial version with a phone or download it from Microsoft and then buy a key it only sets you back 42 (about £30) - a huge saving if you can live without the fancy box and possibly a disc. For this price you can't go wrong as the level of functionality and intergration is way ahead of Thunderbird.