Outlook 2000 is still a “good” program, considering that Outlook XP and Outlook 2003 are still bloated pieces of *CRAP* that aren't going to get any better with age. I had a great talk with an official Outlook Express dude on a recent visit to the Redmond Campus a few weeks back (with Tom Koch in the background). There's still hope for an integrated PIM in the next version of XP – and they'd better keep my number / email address handy when it comes time to solidify the feature set. I'm ready to dump Outlook, and I'm ready to stop recommending Outlook as a PIM – but there's no valid alternative. So, Mozilla gang? Thanks for brewing up a storm.
I don't like FireFox – largely because I'm not ready to like it yet. But I'm already in love with the idea of Mozilla Lightning. That being said, I'm still afraid of shifting away from something that's been tried-and-true for all these years (since Outlook 98, that is). My PIM data is very important to me, and if a product isn't rock solid beyond a shadow of a doubt, there's no way I could use it every minute of every day. Lightning has to be smart, stable, and seldom crash – unlike FireFox. Sorry, but I've yet to use the close button in that app – it always ends in a fatal error. I'm not going to say that FireFox sucks, but I still think that Mozilla (proper) is much better. May Lightning strike Outlook more than once.