I'm not a big fan of Outlook myself. It's an email client with far too many pretensions and a fairly hefty overhead. I particularly dislike the 'Please wait while Outlook exits' message that insists on being in the foreground no matter what. It's also slow, has a huge raft of unnecessary features, and if you use Word as your email editor the memory overhead is huge (about 28Mb) for something that just sits there and checks for email every few minutes. It's also the most likely piece of software to crash on your PC. Did I mention that I don't like it?