Another reason not to “upgrade” to Office 2007

Published 1/12/07

Not long ago, I wrote a column about how Microsoft had screwed up the new versions of both Internet Explorer and Office. I won’t go into details here — read the column for that — but let’s just say that I’ll stick with Office XP or 2003 as long as I can, or switch to OpenOffice if I must.

Today I see that David Greiner has found yet another reason to avoid Office 2007: Outlook has apparently been crippled. Well, maybe not crippled, but its handling of HTML messages (which, like it or not, a lot of people send) was ‘taken back five years.’

Redmond, it seems, has lost its way.

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2 responses (add yours)

GaryL says:

Why pay for something that you can get for free? Use free alternatives. More importantly why pay for something that is crippled in any way?

January 13th, 2007 at 10:03 AM

Leland says:

Haven’t used Outlook in many years. Our IT guys banned it after a four month long epic battle with a horde of viruses. Most of which were opened by reporters or producers (who just did a story on the latest and greatest computer clap) who turned some of protection off because an e-mail from some acquaintance wouldn’t open.

Thunderbird works fairly well and it’s free.

January 17th, 2007 at 11:47 AM

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