# What business advantages does Outlook give over Gmail?

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- Posted at: almost 13 years ago
- Author title: Agency Manager for Property Solutions Insurance Agency
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## Comments
### Comment 1

As an e-mail client, Outlook is unexceptional.  The driving difference is whether you want the overhead & control of hosting Exchange, or are content letting Google take care of that.

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- Posted at: about 10 years ago
- Author title: Agile software program manager



### Comment 2

There are many more features Outlook support especially if your firm runs an Exchange Server.  Only the Outlook client can take full advantage of all the Sharing of Calendar & Contact features.

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- Posted at: about 12 years ago
- Author title: Retired - December 31, 2020



### Comment 3

...as you can basically use gmail from within Outlook, but you can't run (why would you) outlook from within Gmail. Two different approaches to a same dilemma: how to manage your email.

I prefer Outlook to work. I'm just used to how it works and the many options for writing, reading, completing emails. Throw some nice Office add-ons and you're done. The one thing I hate is that after more than 13 years, outlook is still using that crappy "one file for everything" system, while mails are just mails in Gmail. Know what I mean? One can crash and destroy your work.. The other one is Gmail.

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- Posted at: almost 13 years ago
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### Comment 4

I agree that the integration with Office is nice.  You can use Outlook as your e-mail client and not be using Exchange Server.  Probably the biggest advantage is that Outlook is the defacto standard in the business world.  

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- Posted at: almost 13 years ago
- Author title: Goldmine CRM + Crystal Reports + WordPress + Fixed Asset Management + Emergency Management + Project Management



### Comment 5

There are several. One main one is that your email is stored (with Exchange) on your own server's rather than Google's. Also, there is built-in MS Office integration.

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- Posted at: almost 13 years ago
- Author title: President and COO - Supported Intelligence




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