I don't understand the complaint. Exchange supports opera and firefox. The OWA functionality is not as client like as you would see in internet explorer, but there is a downlevel OWA page that works with other browsers.

Exchange also supports POP3 and IMAP4.

If neither of these are working in your environment then your administrators have specifically turned off those functions.


tried thunderbird but could not get it to connect to owa
Thunderbird is a pop3 or imap4 client. It will not be able to connect to OWA which is HTTP or HTTPS. Different ports, kind of a big deal. In most cases administrators also set these up as different name spaces.

Also all data is stored on the server...so you lose your computer...just get a new one and point to the mailbox..
Depends on how you are configured. If you have a PST based inbox it is stored in your PST. Cached mode clients store the data in both locations.

For business I don't think anything out there compares to exchange 2007. Even from a security standpoint you are not going to get much better than what you can do with exchange 2007.