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New Office beta to launch next week – and not one single person from Microsoft has offered to show it to me. Not one. Perhaps it's because I think that Outlook is headed down the toilet? Perhaps it's because not one of them has bothered to show me what's happening with the next version of Windows? Perhaps it's because they just don't understand what I do for a living? Perhaps it's because… you fill in the blank.
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16 Comments
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 10:53am
I think it's because they are scared of the almighty power of the Gnome. Ah, the power of Gnome.
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 11:21am
They afraid you're going to proclaim that you've found a way to run it on you $799 Lindows laptop…
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 11:29am
But Outlook *is* headed down the toilet! I mean, I've been using the primitive Netscape Messenger for YEARS and it's kept me safe from … oh, I dunno, viruses that automatically run vbscripts and worms that cull your address book… :P
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 11:29am
I think it is because they know it is going to be a huge memory sucking waste of resources, and they were hoping to save you some time in finding that out?
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 12:16pm
Perhaps it's because they know you will find it's pitfalls and it's security holes and thus give them a bad name? Wait, it can't be that, everyone already knows their software is full of problems and security holes. ;)
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 1:12pm
I even tried to sign up for the beta program a while back and got a bunch of ASP errors back for my trouble… they really don't want it in the hands of people, I guess. Or perhaps it IS just us… go figure. I've always been a fan of Office stuff, save for the virus revolution that they call Outlook. If only there was another Exchange front end out there…
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 1:29pm
or perhaps it is because you are a fucking short retarded gnome with a little penis.
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 1:30pm
whoops, didn't really mean to say that chris.
Randy
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Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 3:09pm
SUCK …….< That's what I filled into the Blank. I'm almost Microshaft free…..I only use it for gaming now. The rest is on my iBook.
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 6:30pm
They are afraid of me, huh or because I'm to good for them
Anonymous
March 5th, 2003
at 8:22pm
They found out about that iMac of yours. Now you're personna non grata in Redmond. Well, there's worse things you could be.
Anonymous
March 6th, 2003
at 7:00am
I've actually been using Beta 1 of Office 11.. and I must say that speaking from a corporate point of view, Outlook 11 has a lot of nice things. The ability to view all messages in plain text is nice (it does allow you to switch to the original format after you open the message), the fact it blocks external content links is a nice security/anti-spam feature, and of course the (finally!) arrival of a much improved online/offline cached mode just rocks when Outlook is used in a corporate/Exchange Server setting.
Anonymous
March 6th, 2003
at 3:44pm
Hi Chris – same here. :) They're afraid I suppose. Though I actually hear OL11 is nice.
Keep up the good work. Hope the book is going well.
Tod
Anonymous
March 6th, 2003
at 4:21pm
mmmm, sushi.
i can't wait to get to san francisco for our vacation in april. it's such a gloriously wonderful place.
Anonymous
March 6th, 2003
at 4:29pm
i just realized what a gigantic tool i am….that note was meant for the post above this one. LMAO
Anonymous
March 6th, 2003
at 8:03pm
hey chris!
i watch your show all the time (tivo'ed) and love the goofy puns and whatnot.. :) I work for the Office team at microsoft and i've gatta disagree, outlook is looking better than ever! junk email protection, local cache, new mail view and a total ui makeover. It's something to look forward too!