Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information management tool, developed by Microsoft. Although it is mostly used as an email application, Outlook also provides features to manage contacts and organize tasks, keep notes and track actions in a journal.

Advantages

The emails are available even without an internet connection
It can manage multiple email accounts
Interacts well with other Microsoft technologies, such as: Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory
It has a lot of features like calendar, contacts, notes and tasks

Disadvantages

It’s not free like its other competitors
It has some security problems due to the large number of users
It uses Microsoft Word HTML rendering and some emails will be poorly displayed

Components

Mail
Calendar
Contacts
Tasks
Journal

Development Tools

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office
Microsoft Visual Studio