Harold Fuchs wrote:
> I use a Palm m515 with a Win XP Pro PC. The PC, however, does not have
> Outlook or MS Office installed. I will not change that. I use Outlook
> Express for mail possibly moving to Seamonkey soon. I use Firefox as a web
> browser, OpenOffice for word processing, spreadsheets etc. and my Palm & its
> Desktop for calendar, address book etc.
>
> If I move to WM6 how do I manage without Outlook and MS Office?
>
> I've trawled the net via Google and looked in several rather pathetic WM6
> forums but ...
> Surely the people making devices that run WM6 can't think everyone can
> afford or wants to pay for Outlook & MS Office?
>
> Harold Fuchs
> London, England
>
>
A very late reply as I recently switched to a new news server after
Time Warner got rid of theirs.

Although I haven't yet tried these here are two alternatives I found.
There's a program called SyncExpress 3 which allows for syncing with
Outlook Express. Last I saw it costs $18 to buy.

Another item I have but not yet tried is FinchSync. Apparently this one
allows for syncing Thunderbird/Mozilla/Seamonkey/Lightning/Sunbird data.
I plan to test that one today sometime.
http://www.finchsync.com/

I don't use Outlook Express for anything but if FinchSync doesn't
work I might try SyncExpress if there's a trial version (of course
this means I'll have to export/import Palm or Thunderbird data).

Being a Palm user I was hoping to find something that allowed for
syncing between Palm data and Pocket PC. I did find something but
like a dummy I can't find where I wrote it down so I'll have to
search again.
There are alternatives but it's just a matter of whether or not they
work.

Marc

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