I had to switch to Thunderbird from Outlook when I changed jobs recently, and I have to say, they do not compare other than on a very basic level. I'm definitely not a Microsoft fangirl most of the time, but I truly, truly miss my Outlook calendar that is a part of standard Outlook that Thunderbird doesn't have (currently using google calendar instead, which is OK, but has some serious limitations). I also really miss the integration of the entire office's information that came through using Outlook--being able to see if anyone invited to a meeting had a schedule conflict ahead of time, etc. Third, when you're working with internet invites from sites like evites or similar, they always seem to have a little link to click to automatically add an event to your Outlook calendar, but that's not an option if you're using other mail clients. I realize most of my issues are calendar related, but that's what Outlook offered that the others don't and it's what I miss the most and really wish that Thunderbird would find a way to include. In a world of a zillion programs, the most compatible wins.

In my current office, some have Outlook if it came on their system, some have Thunderbird, some have other programs entirely. There's no coordination of anything. Blech.

I listened to your show and you were wrong that there is little or no fraud protection for Visa or mastercard. It used to be the case earlier. But now Visa and mastercard gives same security protections like credit cards. Here is the Visa site: http://usa.visa.com/personal/using_visa/personal_finance/debit.html#anchor_2 . Standard mastercard have zero liability: http://www.mastercard.com/us/personal/en/aboutourcards/debit/standard_card.html

I hope you would inform your listeners about this change.

Anyone have a suggestion for replacing Outlook? gMail doesn't quite cut it.