Comments on: 65 Reasons Why Outlook 2007 Will Suck

By: Unknown

Unknown — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:01:36 +0000

Outlook 07 is the worst I’ve ever seen. It is shocking how bad it is. Can’t reschedule a meeting from one time to another without MeetingPlace blowing up. What a piece.

By: Bouncehouse

Bouncehouse — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:25:47 +0000

I have not been able to send mail only receive it. This has been a big pain in the — because I love the functionality of saving and categorizing emails. But if I need to send an email, I have to go to Gmail.

By: jen

jen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:43:43 +0000

I wish I would have read this article 2 years ago.

By: KEN LEBRUN

KEN LEBRUN — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:37:35 +0000

The program is a disaster in terms of reliability.
Microsoft makes it virtually impossible to find solution to problem without paying fees.
My latest disaster is that I am locked out of my delete file and I cannot delete records unless i open the individual record and delete while open.

Error Message: Cannot display the folder. Microsoft Office Outlook cannot access the specified folder location. The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook. Outlook cannot open this item. The item may be damaged.

Microsoft has a monopoly, it is developing dysfunctional software, it is taking an arrogant approach to resolving the problems.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:08:18 +0000

Woah. I didn’t know THAT many people have such a problem with MS… I’m 12 now, and I seem to be getting along just fine. I use all the latest versions of Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Outlook, and I for one, love it. Its easy to use and understand (to me) and its not slow at all. I use a pretty fast computer, and I’m kinda computer savvy -_- but still. I might be pretty young, but any moron would see that anyone complaining is a WHINER. God, you’d think adults could be SMARTER and maybe less whiny, but most of you remind me of the little 5 year olds on my bus. Loads of these points aren’t *valid* and some are just so MINOR compared to the big changes we really need, or that have already been provided.

By: Joan

Joan — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:51:07 +0000

outlook constantly freezes does anyone know why this is happening?

By: RRRRRRR

RRRRRRR — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:39:01 +0000

Wow, Word Is Completely F****!!!!!!!! I Saved My Work And It Comes Up Saying That I Cannot Save And It Cannot Find The Temporary Files Either! What A Waste Of 24 Hours Working My A.S.S. Off :D

By: How to Avoid Microsoft’s Landing Page Mistakes

How to Avoid Microsoft’s Landing Page Mistakes — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:30:52 +0000

[...] is an easy target, I admit. Their failures are well documented (outlook 2007, zune, branding, etc.) It’s easy to pick on the big guy. We expect that the one with the [...]

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:47:54 +0000

I have the same issue as CHVT!!! When I start outlook 2007, after a while, letter C H V T dissapear… the only way to get them back is restarting outlook…
Anyone found a solution?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:37:07 +0000

Time to update this, Chris.
“6500 Reasons why Outlook 2007 DOES suck”

* Add the ability to rename calendar tabs.
* Add the ability to remove the appointment handles.
* Make the arrow indicating an appointment further down the list a little more visible instead of hiding it next to a scroll bar arrow.
* Fix the printing to allow more flexibility in printing items.
* Fix the problem with printing tracking info on a separate sheet.
* 6495 More…

By: robert

robert — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:19:29 +0000

OMG, Office 2007 sucks A$$!! Hey, open an email in Outlook 2007, now try to find how to search through that email with the Find function….Hmmm… where is the find function? hey wait where are all of the things you could find via a menu in 2003? Looks like classic Mac designs, ah you can find the special icon that no one knows or you can press the secret 4 key sequence to get what you want, OR you can hire MS to give you 6 months of user interface training…ugh.. that will be only good until the next version of Office.

OMG, the Microsoft Designers are morons!!!

Oh, and you have to love how they have no clue about colors and highlighting in Vista too. Open a dialog box, ok, you see the text area is highlighted, so being a human you think “I can type now, because the focus is where the highlight is”…then you find wait a minute the highlight has nothing to do with where the focus is. OMG, someone should take the MS designers out back and shot them. I guess they have so much money up at MS that they are too busy smoking crack to think about user interface designs.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:49:40 +0000

The true power of software is not in the number of features but how powerful it makes the end user. While the methodology Microsoft used to decide these interface changes seems driven by empowering the most inept group of users, it in my view fails the 5% of power users who produce 95% of the work for industry worldwide. At the very least, the dolts at Microsoft could have created a button to restore the original file and menu system; instead too many power users are wasting time Googling how to do even the most basic things like print, undo, save as, or select a print area. I imagine that within Microsoft there is a group of Office power users who despise this new 2007 interface as much as the rest of us. When a company purchases software, there is an expectation that the vendor will not do anything to seriously jeopardize security or productivity. Perhaps if there were a class action aganist Microsoft by businesses who have had their employee performance impaired by these unsolicited changes, Microsoft would be less likely to make such changes without greater end-user participation, especially by power users, the most productive employees in any organization. It’s as though Microsoft takes its design queues from the old communist Politiburo model where mediocrity is rewarded and planning comes top-down from the Central Committee.

By: Jumping on the “report the bug in my blog” bandwagon : crankygeek

Jumping on the “report the bug in my blog” bandwagon : crankygeek — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:19:06 +0000

[...] it seems to work for Chris and Nick, I thought I’d throw a bug into the blog arena regarding Outlook [...]

By: Tinnie

Tinnie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:07:07 +0000

Another reason it sucks is that I am unable to turn OFF my damn out of office RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So everyone thinks I’m an idiot because it’s still on even though I’ve talked to them on the phone and they know I’m in the office.

By: Scott Stauffer

Scott Stauffer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:26:43 +0000

Hmm… Chris. I don’t know you at all, so please don’t take this as a slight in any way, because I am right there beside you on the fact that Outlook sucks, BUT… and some awful big BUTs here…

Make it so that people can consume 65 reasons. I am not hung up on look as much as I am about other things. Maybe categorize your annoyances, and prioritize them? I won’t read your list as it really missed the mark for me. If you want Microsoft to take these things seriously, make it more palatable? I don’t know, you might be a MS MVP for Office, or just someone with lots of time on their hands. If you have a bit more time, please make a new list and email me, and maybe the MS Outlook development team?

Scott