Outlook Still sucks

Posted by Michael Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:33:00 GMT

Somehow, I think through my excellent magic skills, I’ve managed to have NEVER used Microsoft Outlook. I’ve been designing systems since 1995 and never, ever used it in production anything for my own email account.

It’s been a few years since I even tested it…

I’m designing a system for a client and I setup a Windows XP box inside VMWare and installed Outlook. On starting it for the first time, I got 90% of the way though the new mail wizard and Outlook crashed. When I try to start it again, it gives me a “cannot open mail stores” and exits.

Yep, fresh XP install (patched of course), new Outlook install.

Completely useless.

I don’t know how you Windows admins even wake up and go to work in the morning, I really don’t.

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Palm Cancels the Folio

Posted by Michael Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:27:00 GMT

This was predicable and a little funny:

“To that end, and after careful deliberation, I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering out next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to develop products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one”

Read the blog post here.

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