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Microsoft Outlook provides a single application for email, calendar, and contacts. Apple mail uses 3 different applications for the same functions, including Mail for email and iCal for calendar. The single MS Outlook application provide tighter integration, and some additional features, as well as better overall performance. Synchronization of Outlook across multiple devices has also proven more reliable. Apple mail 's suite of products sometimes corrupts, and does not sync contacts or message folders correctly.
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- Performance languishes in Apple mail Mail with just several thousand email messages.
- Behaviors: Slow, unresponsive, unreliable/ gets confused
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