For the last four months I\u2019ve made it a point of using both\nGmail and Outlook, equally, for my business mail. I did this to study the\ndifferences in their current versions. I wanted to do this updated evaluation\nbecause a lot has changed in each product over the years, especially recently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I admit I\u2019ve been a bit biased. I\u2019ve been an Outlook user\nfor decades and dismissed Gmail years ago (when in beta) as being merely a good\nfree web mail app, but not a serious business tool. Because of that, all my\nbooks and courses have mostly been about Outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that has changed. With Gmail\u2019s recent redesigns, I now\nfind the two apps, on balance, nearly equivalent for serious business email\nmanagement. Each has advantages and disadvantages, however, and those will definitely\ninfluence your choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Preliminary App Definitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Before I present my conclusions, let\u2019s get these preliminary\n\u201cdefinitions\u201d out of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conclusion Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is a bullet list of my conclusions; details on each of\nthese bullet points will follow in future articles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As you\u2019ll see in this list, I find it\u2019s a bit of a wash now,\nwith each platform ahead and behind in different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While overall, the apps pros and cons roughly balance, it is gratifying to me to see Gmail has become so useful and mature in its feature sets these days. Frankly, I think Microsoft needs the competition. And in the Smartphone arena, it\u2019s especially good to see Gmail\u2019s strong support for labels (categories) and conversion of emails to tasks. Given how much I use my smartphone for email, this alone is one reason to favor the Gmail approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upcoming Gmail Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Because of this near equivalence (and Gmail\u2019s growing business penetration), I am starting to develop video courses for Gmail. The first is a course on using Google Tasks with my 1MTD system. I should be releasing this video course in about one month, so watch my newsletter announcements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I\u2019ll be issuing more detailed comparison articles on\nthese two apps, ones that drill down on my bullet points above, in upcoming newsletters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the last four months I\u2019ve made it a point of using both Gmail and Outlook, equally, for my business mail. I did this to study the differences in their current versions. I wanted to do this updated evaluation because … Continue reading