OL 2003 Stand-alone upgrade problems...?

[DJ Bjorklund]

Oh goody...
Text from an Amazon review of OL2003 stand-alone:
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October 23, 2003
This is a terrible product,
Reviewer: A software user from Tucson, AZ United States

I ordered Outlook 2003 with great confidence. However, I was unable to
load it on my Dell running Windows 2000 with 256 MB of ram, even after
reinstalling it several times. Worse, when I removed it and tried to
reinstall Outlook 2002 (from the Office XP suite), that would no
longer work. After spending several hours with technical support over
several days and being bumped up to a supervisor, I was finally able
to revert to my older Outlook. The supervisor told me that other staff
had told him that Outlook 2003 had problems as a stand-alone product
because it shares code with Word 2003. Now they tell us..... I'm sure
it's a great product if it can be made to work, but I was unable to
make it work.
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Not that I typically base my expectations on Amazon "reviews", but...
Do we know if this is a valid concern at all?
Well, I've ordered it and will be upgrading OL2002 in Office XP on a
WinXP Dell P4 machine.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Having a mismatch between Word and Outlook has always meant reduced functionality -- no WordMail, for example, and the Send To and mail merge features in Word go away too, IIRC. But that shouldn't affect the ability to run Outlook without the Word-related features. I wonder if they were up to date on WIndows service packs.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[DJ Bjorklund]

Having a mismatch between Word and Outlook has always meant reduced functionality -- no WordMail, for example, and the Send To and mail merge features in Word go away too, IIRC. But that shouldn't affect the ability to run Outlook without the Word-related features. I wonder if they were up to date on WIndows service packs.

Sue, good points all. I myself am an up-to-date XP service pack
freak, so I feel better already ;-) Thanks