I can work with manipulations on 20MB images in Photoshop more quickly and efficiently than I can performa basic email tasks. It’s not the hardware.

With a product that doesn’t have flaws we should be seeing one person who’s having problems among dozens for whom the app works flawlessly, not the other way around.

Telling people to use Thunderbird is missing the point - why can MS not deliver a product that works for a large part of their market, corporate or otherwise, better than a free app?

(For the record, I was using it on machine with a 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 HT with 3Gb RAM and a 256Mb video card.)

I can work with manipulations on 20MB images in Photoshop more quickly and efficiently than I can performa basic email tasks. It’s not the hardware.

With a product that doesn’t have flaws we should be seeing one person who’s having problems among dozens for whom the app works flawlessly, not the other way around.

Telling people to use Thunderbird is missing the point - why can MS not deliver a product that works for a large part of their market, corporate or otherwise, better than a free app?

(For the record, I was using it on machine with a 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 HT with 3Gb RAM and a 256Mb video card.)

I doubt I’ll have DST problems as I don’t sync anything with online calendars, so when DST comes around, I’ll be happy the times are updated.

Performance wise, this runs great. There was no performance drop in 2003 in the slightest. There has been no data corruption, no long loading times, no massive CPU or disk usage at all. I watched my CPU usage while running it and playing with the calendar, mail, etc. The highest jump I saw was 8% with an average of 2%, and most of that is probably system and background apps! Someone else was complaining about clicking links and having them open in a browser taking 30 seconds. In actuality, it so quick it’s almost instant. If the browser isn’t running currently, then yes, it takes approximately 0.5 seconds. You must be running on a 200 MHz Celeron or something. My machine is ok, a core 2 duo @ 2.4 GHz with 4 GB of ram, nothing too high end or special.

As for internet calendars, who cares. It’s called Exchange server, and it works like a charm. If you’re wanting email in a non-corporate setting, use something like Thunderbird. That’s what I use at home, and I love it.

Otherwise, I love Outlook 07. Overlaying calendars on top of each other is a great feature, and the calendar views seem cleaner to me. Tasks are much more improved, especially how they line up in your calendar view so everything is integrated together. The built in viewers for office docs, text, and images right within messages are great.

I honestly have not run into a single issue after upgrading Office to 07, and will never go back. It’s an update well worth doing.

I doubt I’ll have DST problems as I don’t sync anything with online calendars, so when DST comes around, I’ll be happy the times are updated.

Performance wise, this runs great. There was no performance drop in 2003 in the slightest. There has been no data corruption, no long loading times, no massive CPU or disk usage at all. I watched my CPU usage while running it and playing with the calendar, mail, etc. The highest jump I saw was 8% with an average of 2%, and most of that is probably system and background apps! Someone else was complaining about clicking links and having them open in a browser taking 30 seconds. In actuality, it so quick it’s almost instant. If the browser isn’t running currently, then yes, it takes approximately 0.5 seconds. You must be running on a 200 MHz Celeron or something. My machine is ok, a core 2 duo @ 2.4 GHz with 4 GB of ram, nothing too high end or special.

As for internet calendars, who cares. It’s called Exchange server, and it works like a charm. If you’re wanting email in a non-corporate setting, use something like Thunderbird. That’s what I use at home, and I love it.

Otherwise, I love Outlook 07. Overlaying calendars on top of each other is a great feature, and the calendar views seem cleaner to me. Tasks are much more improved, especially how they line up in your calendar view so everything is integrated together. The built in viewers for office docs, text, and images right within messages are great.

I honestly have not run into a single issue after upgrading Office to 07, and will never go back. It’s an update well worth doing.

Some very basic things have been shuffled about and recategorized and what once took 1 click now takes 3. And so on and so forth.

It’s called QA microsoft, you might want to investigate some best practices.

It is quite the swine on resources as well.

Downgrade time.

Some very basic things have been shuffled about and recategorized and what once took 1 click now takes 3. And so on and so forth.

It’s called QA microsoft, you might want to investigate some best practices.

It is quite the swine on resources as well.

Downgrade time.

Also, the stupid paragraph mark and proofreading characters appear when I am composing an e-mail. Yes, I have it turned off in Word, Style, toolbar, etc. It keeps coming back and this program will change styles on me and revert to displaying it.

It is running on XP. There were no problems for four months then, it started. Our ISP put everyone they serve into a group at Google mail. Maybe there is a different way to configure our set up because of that.

I send out a news letter each month, in HTML, and people can’t see it. If anyone has any ideas, they would be welcome. Setting up a new profile was impossible because of loosing all my contacts. I am not enough of a techie to reconfigure (and I shouldn’t have to) my contacts, etc. after changing profiles.

While I am at it. Why doesn’t Microsoft have updated directions. If you are looking for direction in Outlook 2007 there is a step that is skipped or the function is called by another name. That burns me up. If I pay for Microsoft 2007, I want the directions to be for it not another program!

Thanks, I feel better but, my problems are not solved. Waiting for the other shoe to drop……

Also, the stupid paragraph mark and proofreading characters appear when I am composing an e-mail. Yes, I have it turned off in Word, Style, toolbar, etc. It keeps coming back and this program will change styles on me and revert to displaying it.

It is running on XP. There were no problems for four months then, it started. Our ISP put everyone they serve into a group at Google mail. Maybe there is a different way to configure our set up because of that.

I send out a news letter each month, in HTML, and people can’t see it. If anyone has any ideas, they would be welcome. Setting up a new profile was impossible because of loosing all my contacts. I am not enough of a techie to reconfigure (and I shouldn’t have to) my contacts, etc. after changing profiles.

While I am at it. Why doesn’t Microsoft have updated directions. If you are looking for direction in Outlook 2007 there is a step that is skipped or the function is called by another name. That burns me up. If I pay for Microsoft 2007, I want the directions to be for it not another program!

Thanks, I feel better but, my problems are not solved. Waiting for the other shoe to drop……

Thing is I still want the 2007 version of Powerpoint…… I wanted to do a custom install of Office 2007 originally, installing only Powerpoint, but it wouldn’t let me. So. Do you think it would be possible, to go to add/remove programs, choose change, and delete everything from Office 2007, BUT for Powerpoint. Then install Office 2003, choosing to ONLY install Word and Outlook (as that’s all i want) from Office 2003, and still end up with my Powerpoint 2007???? I’d appreciate any opinions or feedback about my idea before I go ahead and try it. I might be just dreamin here, but, it seems to make logical sense to me, lol.
thanks in advance.

Thing is I still want the 2007 version of Powerpoint…… I wanted to do a custom install of Office 2007 originally, installing only Powerpoint, but it wouldn’t let me. So. Do you think it would be possible, to go to add/remove programs, choose change, and delete everything from Office 2007, BUT for Powerpoint. Then install Office 2003, choosing to ONLY install Word and Outlook (as that’s all i want) from Office 2003, and still end up with my Powerpoint 2007???? I’d appreciate any opinions or feedback about my idea before I go ahead and try it. I might be just dreamin here, but, it seems to make logical sense to me, lol.
thanks in advance.

Opening a link from within the app takes 30 seconds. A link. In an email. Which opens a browser. OL2003 on my old PIII 766 at home takes 10 seconds. And it can barely run Windows.

Between Vista and OL2007 I am pretty much ready to switch OSes.

I bought three new home computers this year. All of them with XP and OL 2003. And I’m perfectly happy.

Brave new world, where art thou?