Sleeping with the Enemy

With nothing really addressing my needs, I went to Windows 98 to get by. This was good, in that it let me be more objective in my assessment of operating systems. It let me not get blind to what improvements had been made to Windows, especially since my only recent Windows experience had been NT at work, and it lacked things the consumer Windows had. However, Windows 98 certainly lacked the stability that NT had. It wasn't long before failure to shutdown was a regular occurrence. However, once I got a Palm handheld, it was clear the emphasis of synchronization ability was for Windows and Outlook. I reluctantly had to switch to using Outlook Express because it was the only mail program that would reliably sync with my Palm in the way I wanted. I figure this is because Palm spends more effort on their Outlook Express sync conduit than any other, but that's the thing: it's not whether I like a particular mail client; it's whether Palm likes a particular one and makes a nice sync with it.

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