I tried it because I dislike Outlook (for reasons I won'd go into). I like Thunderbird but I've historically had a lot of trouble getting my calendar to sync properly to Google calendar (sometimes it works fine, other times it gives me mysterious "failed to write" errors).
Since Thunderbird development seemed to have slowed to a crawl, I thought I'd try a product with a company standing behind it:
- A few months ago I tried PostBox. The e-mail piece worked great but it crashed as soon as I tried to use the Lightning calendar plugin. Their response was that Lightning isn't provided by them so I should take it up with the developers of Lightning. Having the problem dumped back on my lap was what I was trying to avoid by paying for a product that a company stands behind (fortunately I was still in the free trial period).
- Then I tried Mailbird. It's a fun-feeling product which supports Google calendar integration (and other 3rd party integrations) but it couldn't handle event invitations from Outlook, which makes it something of a non-starter for anyone looking to use it in most business settings. They were responsive to my inquiries, however and said that feature should be available in version 2.0 so I'll probably give it another try then.