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April 17, 2007
Outlook 2007 performance update
Stephen's posted a link in the forum for an Outlook 2007 update which improves performance.
The 8.3 MB update should accelerate the download of messages from the Exchange e-mail server and reduce temporary freezes resulting from deleting messages or copying them from one folder to another as well as allow faster switching between messages and enable faster program startup. "I can’t say that this will 100 percent solve the latency issues, but users should see a big improvement," said Jessica Arnold, Outlook’s program manager.We've been trialling Outlook 2007 recently, and it does seem it could do with a touch more speed.
We'd be interested in your impressions of Outlook 2007. It seems quite an improvement on previous versions, although we haven't yet completely fallen in love with it. What about you?
Posted by cw at April 17, 2007 04:25 PM
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With around 50,000 items in Outlook taking 1.5Gb locally (1.2gb on the Server) this has been a welcome improvement with a most noticable speed increase switching between folders (Mail, Contacts, Calendar & RSS)
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at April 18, 2007 12:31 AM
Whilst you are trialling out Outlook you might be interested in this brief artcile using Outlook 2007 & Getting Things Done (GTD)
Posted by: Stephen at April 18, 2007 12:55 AM
I run Outlook with a .PST and have lately been using Rainlender as an electronic equivalent of the old paper under the plastic / glass A3 appointment planner. Whenever you run Outlook like this, with ActiveSync and with any other add-ins, in all the versions since '97, you risk corruption. I don't care so much whether Outlook 2007 is faster or not (how fast does your brain work when you are thinking of juggling appointments or making to-dos with your inbox), Outlook any version needs to be corrupt-pst proof. Then we can slap on any add-ins for GTD, planning, desktop alerts, SPAM BAYES, anti-virus or whatever without facing daily corruptions.
Posted by: anandasim at April 18, 2007 01:44 AM
I found you by your post on Robert Wright's interesting article, "E-mail and Prozac."
It looks like you're the first to blog about it (ie assuming "copy and paste" isn't a legitimate form of blog-entry!).
I am genuinely curious: how many people are 100% satisfied by ANY of the existing email offerings, obviously including Outlook (& Thunderbird of course), but also GMail too ??
Did anyone see this new product "mailplane" (on digg) which is supposed to integrate GMail with Mail.app? Does this work for anyone? Is anybody out there looking for a new solution? (Does anybody have one?)
http://5thirtyone.com/archives/808
via
http://digg.com/apple/Thanks_to_Mailplane_Gmail_can_replace_your_desktop_email_client
[originally submitted a month ago to limited acclaim:
Posted by: Nathaniel Braun at April 18, 2007 03:11 AM