Is OL 2007 ready for release? WSJ says MS thinks so.

[Guest]

Today's WSJ says that Microsoft is close to releasing Office 2007. I am
curious as to other people's opinions about whether or not OL is ready. My
own opinion is that it is still too buggy. I have to kill the application
about once every 2-3 days. It still seems to have issues when it is updating
the mailbox that stop everything else from working. WDS is still not fast
enough when integrated to OL. Overall speed of TR2 was better, but the app
is still slower than OL 2003, which was already too slow.

Love lots of the new features but it still seems not ready. Perhaps the
internal versions fix a lot of stuff, particularly the performance, but....

Other people's thoughts?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

B2TR is getting closer but I would hope to see a Release Candidate prior to
RTM (release to manufacturing)

 

[Guest]

I'll second that.

The new Oiffce suite is the best update Microsoft have done for years - I am
using and testing it extensively in all my University work, and extolling its
virtues to my colleagues - but it is still, even with the recent update, very
buggy. The changes are considerable, so users will have to get used to new
ways of doing things - exactly the situation where one doesn't want a
problem. A Release Candidate would make very good sense.

The Outlook 2007 speed question is clearly a dilemma - it is really slow on
my XP system - really slow - but much much faster on both my desktop and
tablet Vista RC1 systems - this presumably is to do with the integration with
Vista. If P. Cause hasn't tried it on a Vista system, he/she should. But -
combined with the fact that Outlook 2007 is the one program that won't
co-exist with previous versions of Office - this is going to cause headaches
for those very many (like my University colleagues) who will update the
Office suite but not yet update from XP to Vista. If the speed problem in
Windows XP can't be solved, then there must be a case for advising customers
still using XP not to update their Outlook when they update the rest of the
suite - otherwise there are going to be a lot of very annoyed customers.

It would seem to me that a release candidate release is exactly what is
needed to check out such things before general release.