<p>It's been two months now since I went all in on Mailbird, the self proclaimed "best email client for Windows". In my last post on the topic, I reserved judgment on the system until I was able to spend more time with it as my daily e-mail client. Having done that, I'm ready to make a decision.</p><p>I've been running Mailbird as my only desktop email client since November. Using the long awaited multi-account feature, I have 8 Gmail accounts connected and I have it installed on my work machines and my home machine. So how does it stack up as a workhorse email client? Let's find out.</p><p>A major problem I've always had with other email clients is that over time, the amount of email and the number of accounts I have cause the systems to slowly degrade in performance down to a pitiful state. With Mailbird, I've yet to experience any change in performance regardless of how much mail is coming in. I attribute this to the fact that Mailbird was designed from scratch to be optimized for webmail services, in my case Gmail.</p><p>Another problem I've had in the past is Calendar sharing and synchronization. With Mailbird, they've chosen to forego building their own calendar app and instead integrate Google Calendar into the client. This really just frames in the Google Calendar web page, but it works well and provides a familiar experience. Since we are a Google Apps for Business user, everything connects seamlessly including company contacts and shared calendars. The calendar app only works with Google Calendar so far, so users of other email services are out of luck here.</p><p><a href="http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/401798/mailbird-best-email-client-windows-gmail">Keep reading...</a></p>