I've seen plenty of recommendations pointing to third party products to migrate from Thunderbird to Outlook.

Why is this functionality not built in to Outlook.  I would have pushed harder here to keep Thunderbird if I had known

it was going to be such a pain (& pricey).  Is MS not interested in attracting customers?

TIA

I've seen plenty of recommendations pointing to third party products to migrate from Thunderbird to Outlook.

Why is this functionality not built in to Outlook.  I would have pushed harder here to keep Thunderbird if I had known

it was going to be such a pain (& pricey).  Is MS not interested in attracting customers?

TIA

Going to speculate that the amount of "new business" wouldn't come anywhere close to what it would cost to add the capability and probably unprofitable taking support into account. Cost is a composite of initial development, testing, on-going support and everything else that must be maintained for that activity etc - none of which is cheap. For instance, if a problem arose and it was an issue related to corrupt TBird files - why should MS suddenly take on the responsibility of having to "prove" that the underlying data is faulty just "because" they are Microsoft and the user opted originally to use a "free" option.

Don't know what options you have looked at but one that has had consistently high rankings from anyone who has tried it (leastwise that I'm aware of) is a solution from the folks at <Fookes Software> which is considered by others to be easy, fast, and cost effective. (When I tested it once a couple of years ago - also found it to work exactly as advertised)

Export Thunderbird to Outlook

http://www.aid4mail.com/export-thunderbird-to-outlook

Disclaimer: The above link is provided as information only and your own due diligence should be done. I have absolutely no vested interest in either the product or company in any way.

Try to use any professional application to migrate from Thunderbird to Outlook. You can check out some effective application from here http://www.mboxtopsts.com/ . with this MBOX to PST Converter, you can easily convert Thunderbird data to Outlook . For any other query visit

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Have a look here http://www.free.convertmboxtopst.com/ . This is very simple and reliable third party application,may be it help you to instantly convert MBOX to PST files. for any other query visit http://www.mboxtopst.org/

For transfer your emails from one email program (MBOX) to another (PST), you need a third party tool which help you to import your emails from MBOX to PST format. You can simply get it from this:- http://www.mboxtopstconverter.pcrecoverytools.com/
 

You can get some more useful information regarding Thunderbird to Outlook conversion from here http://www.mboxtopstconvert.recoveryfiles.org/ . This is very advanced application that easily converts MBOX files of Thunderbird to PST format.

I have downloaded and used the tool you have suggested, but one function is missing that I have already seen in another application. The tool does not support automatic detection of the thunderbird profile and convert only a single file at a time. Since, Thunderbird to Outlook converter has all these functions as described here: http://www.thunderbird.mboxtooutlook.org