A big fat harry sloth.
After playing with the Beta’s I was somewhat excited. Somewhat…
It seems they took a reasonable interface and made it something that is simply cumbersome, and as confusing as hell to use when it comes to things like Word 2007.
Excel isn’t so bad.
But Outlook 2007? It’s the pits, not the interface, that’s mostly unchanged, but damn is it slow.
During the beta’s I just kept telling myself; “Hey, it’s beta, it’s bloated with debug code and what not, it has to get betterâ€. Boy was I wrong.
I have a pretty snazzy Dell D820 running XP with 2 gigs of RAM, a 7200 rpm hard drive and Outlook 2007 simply sucks.
I’ve done some digging on the web and tried a few tips and tricks to speed it up, all to no avail.
Words to describe Outlook: slow, apathetic, dilatory, heavy, fat, snaillike, dallying, laggard, and sluggish. I’m going to hang with it for a bit, but if something doesn’t break soon, I will have to roll back.
Perhaps it’s Windows search which is killing my whole machine, even though I’ve pretty much suspended indexing until I’m nowhere near it.
If you know what I’m talking about and have a fix, please comment.
There seems to be two major problems with Outlook 2007:
1. The way it sends/receives for mail causes errors which slows to crawl getting email to download.
2. The way it reads and writes to the .pst file causes super high cpu use which freezes the whole machine up for a couple minutes at a time.
After many attempts to fix the problems I had to just uninstall it and go back to using Outlook 2003.
Yes, precisely.
Even on the Beta/MS Forums, there are plenty of complaints and not a lot of solutions.
Can we say Office 2k7 Service Pack One?
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