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Originally Posted by Azure
Well Outlook isn't the same as Gmail. Hotmail would be about the same.
I'm not actually sure what you mean syncing with Outlook. Outlook is just an email program that you can configure for any email.
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Yeah, it's not so clear with email, but Outlook has its own address book for contacts, and its own management of calendar/tasks. These are not simple views of what come with various email providers such as gmail or hotmail. My wife had quite an extensive task list that she managed in Outlook to track everything from appointments to upcoming shopping lists.
She has since had to move all of that to Google Calendar (which, she tells me, is not as feature-rich as what Outlook provides). She used to be able to sync her win mobile phone to Outlook (2-way) so that tasks she added on her phone appeared in Outlook, and vice-versa.
Now, she now uses her phone and the web-interface for gmail/google calendar, and pretty much no longer uses Outlook. So Microsoft has lost her as a user on both the computer and the phone.