imho “paid” application Ms Outlook doesn’t handle poor expectations. so what?

- in Ms Outlook you cannot enter more than one “mobile number” for a contact. (here in my country people has at-least two mobile numbers because one for business, another personal)

+ in free to download application for ubuntu named “kontact” you can add many numbers to one person. i.e. two mobile phones and three business phones.

- in Ms Outlook there is no ability to add more than one business address for a contact. (my business buddies some foreign trade people lives around some countries and usually have more than two business addresses. on the other hand our customers have multiple branches nation wide and receive goods in each branch. so basically I wanna know my customer’s branches all around.

+ in kontact (kde application) you can add many addresses to anyone.

- in misrosoft outlook there is only one field fo “im”. there is no way to add more than instant messaging account to anyone.

+ in kontact you can add and specify more than one skype, yahoo, google talk, aim, etc. accounts to everyone. i.e. my friends at least have two skype accounts as personal and business.

imho Kontact is even better than Evolution. Also Evolution has same limitations of Ms Outlook.

i highly recoommend to use soon to be released windows version of Kontact.

Seeing your comparison between AddressBook and Windows Contacts with the directions you gave about accessing the Windows Contacts causes me to write to you…like, what are you talking about…when I press START and type Windows Contacts…nothing but a big boom, with a dialog box comes up saying that Windows can’t find that application.

Not only that I can’t find any application in the windows directory that looks like Windows Contacts. I tried using the RUN box and…same thing, nada, no such animal. Why? Am I not doing something right? My Windows is Ver 5 build 2600.xpsp_gdr.080814-1236.

So does this not contain Windows Contacts. I have struggled with the d**n Outlook Contacts versus the email list in Outlook…some entries appear one place but not the other and no explanation of why this is so makes any sense or enables me to use them interchangeably.

I’d love a functional Contacts different from the Outlook one…is there one built into Windows XP?????

Sync is always the issue here – does either allow me to keep it synced with Gmail or Yahoo Mail? Does either allow me to import contacts from an LDAP server? Will the address book work with any mail client on the system or just the native one?

For the Mac Address Book you can sync it with Yahoo contacts, and you can import from an LDAP server. You can also sync with a .Mac or Exchange account.