>What do you use instead of Outlook?

Nothing. I never used it (not on my machines - when company laptop came with one, I hated it but had to use it, came with the job), so there's nothing to replace.

For email, I use the same thing that I'm using since 1998 - Mozilla's stuff, and the lineage back to Netscape 3 is unbroken, I still have the emails from back then. There's no "broken pst file" or such, the email database is just one loooong text file.