Mail.app vs Microsoft Outlook

One thing Apple does well is to integrate its apps and hardware. The mail app is no exception. If you must be in the hermit kingdom, at least take advantage of the (often excellent) features provided.

Since it's the built-in Mac email client and is quite complete feature-wise, most users will not really need any other third-party applications out there. Mail.app should be enough for their needs.

Mail.app has powerful markup tools which let users add annotations to images or even sign documents they got through email without ever leaving the client.

• You can choose out of tenths of mailheaders (several hundreds including virtual headers)
• "<header> is (not) in <folder> <header>" operator which enables you to do cool filters
• Each smart folder can have smart subfolders by an user definable key

If the basic features inside Mail.app are not enough, it can easily be extended through plugins to add new features.

The calendar includes agenda, day, and three-day views.

Quick conversion of a received email to a task with the deadline.

clean and smooth experience, very nice and i like it.

Smart lookup is a feature where the Bing search engine is bundled in the app to allow users to automatically search for relevant websites, information and images based on the word highlighted by users, without need to open external browsers. The results will be shown on the right pane of the window.

Microsoft Outlook comes with feature called "Clutter" to filter out incoming email based on the priority of the message set by user. User will be alerted when the high-priority message is incoming, whereas the low-priority message will be put in a separate folder.

Microsoft Outlook allow users to directly attach an attachment directly from cloud services without need to download an entire file before attach to the intended e-mail.

can attach files and use cloud, very good.