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I think MS should concentrate on fixing Office before moving to a cloud

I don't know any company I work with that is willing to depend on cloud software.

As for Office - too many of my clients won't use/buy office 2007 because they hate the new menu/ribbon - some people have had the same menu for about 15 years and don't want to relearn an interface just be functional. While young people may be quicker to adapt, my older clients are pretty set in their ways and just want to type memos, create spreadsheets and not spend their time learning what already has worked for them. I'm fine with the new menu but I think they should have offered a quick click for a "classic" toolbar.

The one app that stuns me MS hasn't really done any major improvements on is Outlook since just about everyone I work for has Outlook always open. They may open Word and Excel throughout the day but Outlook is the most important piece of software on their entire system.

Outlook still can't have two full seperate fully functional e-mail accounts open, you can access two accounts and have send capabilities from the second account but you can't have two signatures, easy automatic switch to send from, you can add the from field, and then select or you can set one account up as exchange and the other as imap or pop but that seriously restricts you. Outlook should be able to handle multiple exchange accounts from one or more servers in a single profile.

You should also be able to open more than one outlook profile at the same time.

Outlook should open and close the database more quickly so you can switch outlook profiles instantly.

There are many other things such as better picture handling in Access MS needs to work on but OUTLOOK needs the MOST improvement.

Posted by: boed   Posted on: 07/01/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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