Perhaps it is a personal hang-up. Perhaps Switchers (like reformed smokers) feel more strongly about this than long-term users.

Whatever the cause, somehow it all just feels so very, very wrong:

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Thanks to the wonders of virtualization, I’ve been getting to know Outlook again.

After that, I’ll probably move on and see if anything interesting has happened to PocoMail and PegasusMail , two old-favourites from my Windows days.

Then maybe Evolution on Ubuntu.

All of this is possible through the magic of the latest beta from Parallels Workstation . TUAW has a step-by-step tutorial on how to set it up.

I recommend giving it a try, if only for the nostaliga factor.outlook, virtualization, parallels workstation, Windows XP, pocomail, weird me out, email, mail clients

Gavin Shearer (who works at Microsoft on Project Planning for Visio) has a cunning theory about Mac OS X and Windows compatibility.

He thinks that OS 10.5 Leopard will run Windows Vista “out of the box” easily, quickly and completely.

As he sees it, this is “the centerpiece of Apple’s strategy for the next 5 years”. It will be Cupertino’s Trojan Horse, leading to a doubling of Apple’s current market share in two years.

In the brave new Leopard world Windows XP will become the “new Classic“, he predicts.

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