Just for the record...I fucking loathe Microsoft Outlook. I've never liked it. Work forces me to use this piece of shit program (for its CRM and Sharepoint integration) and it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if it shuffled off this mortal coil. Why the fuck can't something rise up and put this resource hogging, prone-to-crashing, inbox-incapable-of-auto-cleanup-ing app out to pasture where it belongs?
For the record, the one that comes with Office 2007 in no way improves workflow or resource usage. If anything it's worse.
MS Outlook, you've effectively fucking swallowed 30 minutes of my Thursday morning i'll never get back. Right now I'm waiting for it to "check for corruption" which has taken almost 5 minutes after it crashed itself and proceeded to freeze up the whole computer while it mustered up enough inertia to restart. Oh, and gee, thanks for reminding how "performance may be affected during this period" you fucking fuck. I'm so appreciative of your concern for my workflow I could just shit. Stab me with a fucking brick.
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don't sugar coat it tell us how you really feel. we're lucky enough here to have a mandate AGAINST outlook and IE. thus, we're using Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 and Firefox. I heard that Thunderbird 3 is supposed to have a better calendar and some other 'outlookesque' features in it. mayhap you can convince the suits that Firefox, or at least Thunderbird, is the way to go? Although Firefox is a resource hog too, although not as crappy imo as IE (which always seems to be late to the game regarding must have features).
here you go:
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/
and specifics on what will bein in Thunderbird 3:
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/news/faq/2008-02-19-01
Posted by mike f. | February 21, 2008 12:45 PM
Posted on February 21, 2008 12:45
Oh dude, my kingdom to use Thunderbird @ work. I have it for personal stuff. Problem is as much as Outlook rocks the suck, it DOES integrate with all the other microsoft stuff, which is what companies use it for (at least the ones that employ people like me). So we're tying Outlook into Sharepoint and CRM, which isn't really do-able with Thunderbird (To my knowledge at least).
All that said...I will say that Sharepoint/CRM is pretty fuckin slick.
Posted by Dave McAnally | February 21, 2008 12:53 PM
Posted on February 21, 2008 12:53