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73 of 77 people found the following review helpful:
Works great side by side with Office 2003
Better interface than Outlook 2003. Cleaner with a nicer calendar. I installed Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007 as stand-alone Office Upgrades alongside an Office 2003 install. No problems. I had seen reviews where other users say a reinstall screen pops up everytime they switch between 2003 and 2007 products. That has not happened with my install.
Published on May 20, 2007 by RJL
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80 of 84 people found the following review helpful:
Cosmetic Makeover
The new version of Outlook is VERY similar to the previous version. Cosmetics are neater, but wholesale revamping of the user interface that took place in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint missed this version. Usability is good, and I hope that security is improved, but I see no "burning" need to upgrade to the new version.
Published on February 6, 2007 by Scotty
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80 of 84 people found the following review helpful:
Cosmetic Makeover, February 6, 2007
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
The new version of Outlook is VERY similar to the previous version. Cosmetics are neater, but wholesale revamping of the user interface that took place in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint missed this version. Usability is good, and I hope that security is improved, but I see no "burning" need to upgrade to the new version.
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252 of 278 people found the following review helpful:
Caveat Emptor!!!!!!, February 9, 2007
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
Potential buyers need to know--and Microsoft will NOT tell them--that Office 2007 products, including Outlook, do not exist side-by-side happily with older versions. For example, if you upgrade one Office product, such as Outlook, everytime you start an older Office program, such as Word 2003, it will "reinstall" itself. Then, when you start Outlook 2007, it will "reinstall" itself, etc. Furthermore, if you install an Office 2007 suite that does not include Outlook, it will be impossible to install an older version of Outlook.
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73 of 77 people found the following review helpful:
Works great side by side with Office 2003, May 20, 2007
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
Better interface than Outlook 2003. Cleaner with a nicer calendar. I installed Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007 as stand-alone Office Upgrades alongside an Office 2003 install. No problems. I had seen reviews where other users say a reinstall screen pops up everytime they switch between 2003 and 2007 products. That has not happened with my install.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
Outlook 2007 doesn't live up to expectations, April 20, 2008
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
I have used and loved Outlook for many years, along with the rest of the Office suite. To get up to date, I just bought the home & student Office suite 07 sans Outlook and bought Outlook 07 separately (thinking $200 total was better than $400). Fine - except this Outlook doesn't hook up with the suite, won't let me set default fonts, and is driving me nuts. I sometimes receive a message in white font on white and can't read it until I hit forward to put it into a message whose font I can change so I can finally see it. I looked it up on Microsoft. It's designed to act this way. Thumbs down.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
OUTLOOK 2007 INCOMPATIBLE WITH OFFICE 2003, September 17, 2007
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
Installing stand alone Outlook 2007 will corrupt your Office 2003 suite. Tech support will advise you to erase the components of your damaged 2003 in order to install Outlook 2007, promising to send you a 2003 replacement disk if you don't have your old disk. By attempting to install Outlook 2007, you will lose your entire 2003 and can only obtain a replacement disk for an additional $25.
But it gets worse. If your system came pre-installed, they won't send you a replacement disk; they'll refer you to your computer manufacturer. Ever tried to get a disk from Compaq?? Or Dell? Or Best Buy?
BEWARE OF OUTLOOK 2007!!
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
Version Warning - No CRM, June 18, 2007
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
This was the only Outlook 2007 version listed for sale on Amazon, so I ordered it. Found that it does not have Customer Relationship Management (which MS refers to in Outlook as Business Contact Management). I have since found that BCM probably would have been a useful tool in managing my 1500+ contacts. So if that is important to you, order "Outlook 2007 with BCM" from a vendor that offers that version. Amazon should state somewhere in the product description that this version does NOT have BCM.
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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
Change for change's sake?, August 9, 2007
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
I have been a satisfied user of Outlook 2000 since it came out. I bought Outlook 2007 for my wife, since we switched from Comcast to Qwest broadband. As it turns out the Qwest sub-account emails cannot be set up to send mail using SMTP protocol (can you believe it?) So we were forced to upgrade since you can set up Outlook 2007 to do http email. After numerous tries to install it and having the install abort every time, I read reviews on-line and discovered that you actually have to uninstall the entire Office 2000 suite before you can load Outlook 2007. Now that sounds like the evil empire Microsoft market development team finding a sneaky way to make you have to go and upgrade everything! The diabolical fiends at Microsoft! Fortunately I had purchased Office Home and Student and Outlook in a bundle package, since I needed to upgrade my copy of Excel Office 2000 (another fun MS story...) Once installed, it works fine, and is oh-so-pretty with colors and neat new colorful wonderful, exciting, thrilling, and fancy things! Oh My!
The search feature thing is irritating and slows down performance while it is out gathering eggs on-line, or whatever it is doing that you don't have a clue about, yet is hogging your resources. Now I am afraid to try to install Outlook 2007 on my machine, and since Outlook 2000 is working fine, I figure I'll wait until Microsoft figures out a way to make it quit working with a "security patch" that will kill it dead : )
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
Had to update due to Vista, happy with Outlook, not happy with Microsoft, December 17, 2007
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
I was using Outlook 2003 and was content to keep doing so, but it and Vista did not completely get along. It would not remember my password and forced me to log on every time. Not a huge deal but annoying. The final straw was that I upgraded to Publisher 2007 and the email creation program required me to use Outlook 2007 as the mail program. This kind of thing irritates me - forcing me to purchase new products when the older one works fine. There is a lot of talk about this on every product web site. My take is that I understand inter-operability but when you make your own software obsolete, the marketing and PR problems you create eliminate all good will you have created with the new product offering. If Microsoft would offer truly updated and "must have" new programs, people would buy them without being forced too. Instead they offer warmed over "upgrades" that, for the average user offer nothing different except a few new colors and interfaces. I am strongly considering purchasing all new Apple equipment and leaving the PC world behind. Yeah, the initial buy in is expensive($1200 for a laptop instead of $600) but after all the upgrades and other changes you need to make with Vista, what's the difference?
The outlook 2007 program is fine. It has all the features I need and some bright new colors to boot. No complaint except that I didn't need it until I was forced to buy it.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
Barely no visual changes, but great ones, April 10, 2007
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
Outlook 2007 did not carry all the fancy visual changes that other applications from the 2007 suite did (e.g. Word, Excel...), but the changes were quite awesome.
First, it now has a sidebar with your tasks, a calendar and TO DOs...
When you are on the calendar tab, you will notice a beter organization and, on the bottom, there will be the tasks due each day.
Integration with other calendar tools and online schedules is much better.
Also, it is much better integrated with Windows Mobile.
If you buy Office 2007 Home and Student, don't forget to buy at least one copy of this Outlook because it is not in there and it is necessary for synching your Windows Mobile device.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
PROBLEMS!, February 12, 2007
This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (CD-ROM)
Oh my gosh what a pain in the arse. It says on installation that there's an option to keep all of your older versions of Office software but it apparently DELETES Microsoft Outlook XP Pro entirely. This was the free trial software from Microsoft's website.
This wouldn't be so much of a problem except that now I can't create new emails or reply to emails. I've been on hold with Microsoft Customer Support and was misrouted to support for Excel so I just wasted nearly 45 minutes.
Microsoft is a DISASTER. Can't live with em, can't live without em.
I actually purchased Outlook 2007 from amazon.com but I'm wondering if it was a mistake...
Oh, and if you have a dual-monitor system the new Office 2007 software might not work with some of the extremely practical software features of your video card (switch monitor, single-monitor maximize etc.).
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