Comments on: What Microsoft Needs To Fix In Outlook

By: Peter Torr Smith

Peter Torr Smith — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:54:33 +0000

Well put. I'm so sick of Outlook just crashing or even worse, looping the CPU to 100% so that I've gotta kill it or even hard-kill the machine!! Heavy and bloated and unstable (greedy in resources)... enough is enough.

I do believe however that for many of us smaller businesses, Gmail and Gcal are quickly taking over and providing a more stable, albeit only online, experience. With offline web apps looming, I can see the day I drop Outlook completely... in the near future. Offline web apps on the mobile phone, that's the bomb!

Bring it on!

By: Stray_Trons

Stray_Trons — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:21:30 +0000

My biggest gripe about Outlook is the Today button in the 31 day/Month view. Why, when you clock "today" do you end up with today on the lowest most week shown? Who cares about your calendars history? I know what I did the last month; I want to see what is coming up! Put "Today" on the top line and let’s stop with all the manual scrolling to get it back where it belongs.

If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:14:17 +0000

Outlook was the foremost reason for ditching Windows and transferring to Apple Macintosh. And a year and a half later, I am never going back to Windows, and the only regret is that I didn't do it earlier.

My business resides in email, and if my email records die, so does my business. It is so terrifying to have your business relying on Outlook, which grinds and grinds away. Slow. Buggy. Errors when synching with ActiveSync. I just couldn't take it anymore.

Sure you can back up the .pst but what if important information is lost since your last backup. Also, if there are problems in the .pst, how do you know you're backing up a faulty .pst record?

It is far more reassuring to use an email client, like Apple Mail, which keeps each email as a separate file. No one massive file, like .pst, which is liable to corruption. Think people. If your pst dies, everything, yes, everything goes down with the Titanic.

Oh goodness, I could go on and on how delicious it is to use the Mac, with a few crashes -- I think they come once every few months, compared to Windows.

People, see the light.

Most people are scared of the unknown, and most of my Windows friends who are not excited about Mac have never tried or used a Mac for any length of time.

By: avoidz

avoidz — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:41:44 +0000

I tried Outlook 2007 but it’s slow and bloated and unstable. I use Outlook 2002 which does everything quickly and reliably.

By: Frank Daley

Frank Daley — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:11:41 +0000

Microsoft Outlook is becoming increasingly irrelevant as organizations move to reduce their Total Cost of Ownership. NSW DET has saved around $20M by dumping MS Outlook + Exchange and moving to Google Apps.

This momentum away from Outlook is growing rapidly. Will anyone still be using Outlook by the time the next version comes out?

By: Jeremy Page

Jeremy Page — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:03:53 +0000

I find that when using Outlook Web Access, firefox extension IE Tab comes in real handy.

I just added https://my.outlook.web.server/exchange/ to the automatic IE rendering list and away we go – full rendering in Firefox!

Of course, you do need to be using a platform that supports IE…

By: wordsmith

wordsmith — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:51:36 +0000

TOTALLY agree on the OWA limitation with Firefox. Drives me nuts.

On another note, as much as I love Outlook, for whatever reason my calendar takes f.o.r.e.v.e.r to load up whenever I navigate to it from, say, my inbox or contacts.