Comments on: Using Google Apps for Family Email http://www.gearfire.net/google-apps-for-family-email/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:32:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Geoff R. http://www.gearfire.net/google-apps-for-family-email/#comment-3846 Geoff R. Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:15:59 +0000 http://www.gearfire.net/google-apps-for-family-email/#comment-3846 Well Phil, I wish my parents would go straight to gmail as yours do! I think they would understand the interface more, as Thunderbird is a bit more complicated. That said, they insist on using desktop software, so I guess Thunderbird is better than Outlook Express. Same thing happened to me with the IE-firefox switch. I had to explain to my mom to use the fox around the globe instead of the big "E". I also needed to install Firefox Preloader, because they were complaining that IE loaded faster. Well Phil, I wish my parents would go straight to gmail as yours do! I think they would understand the interface more, as Thunderbird is a bit more complicated. That said, they insist on using desktop software, so I guess Thunderbird is better than Outlook Express.

Same thing happened to me with the IE-firefox switch. I had to explain to my mom to use the fox around the globe instead of the big “E”. I also needed to install Firefox Preloader, because they were complaining that IE loaded faster.

]]> By: Phill http://www.gearfire.net/google-apps-for-family-email/#comment-3840 Phill Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:03:20 +0000 http://www.gearfire.net/google-apps-for-family-email/#comment-3840 Amen to moving parents to Google...and Thunderbird. I'm not sure my parents would have been happy with google apps, but they seem pretty happy with Gmail. Now all I have to do is get them converted to happy Thunderbird users too. Any tips for coming up against "Put it back how it was, I don't like it when you change things"? Amen to moving parents to Google…and Thunderbird. I’m not sure my parents would have been happy with google apps, but they seem pretty happy with Gmail. Now all I have to do is get them converted to happy Thunderbird users too. Any tips for coming up against “Put it back how it was, I don’t like it when you change things”?

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