I installed the beta of office 2010 a week or so ago, I only installed outlook because I use 07 for everything else but today I think I’m giving up on it.
Outlook 2010 is great, its a lovely piece of software and by all means it has a lot of cool features, but its connectivity with my blackberry sucks, which rendered half of it completely useless to me.
And I can’t seem to find a way to send feedback without the send a smile thing, which to me is essentially ‘let’s take a snapshot of your computer, processes, and anything else we like to peruse’ so I’m not a fan of that.
So, when I get home I think I will probably uninstall 2010, stick with my 2007 which doesn’t have outlook.
I do like the interface though. It looks very pretty and everything I need is fairly easy to access, although the send receive button could maybe be somewhere on the home tab in the ribbon thing – its more nitpicking than anything.
But as it is it annoys me, I am thinking of leaving it in favour of online email (apps by Google) and the email on my blackberry, the combination of the two will do me nicely 
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[written from my blackberry, on opera mini, which is brilliant]
Not all that long ago; I discovered a little addin for Outlook; called Xobni.
It’s bloody brilliant. The website bills it as a solution for people “Drowning in Email” – it’s so much more than that. With one click, I can instantly see everything I’ve exchanged with a particular contact; any files, conversations – the whole lot. It picks up information on the contacts from Facebook, LinkedIn; all the stuff like that, and provides a complete profile on that email address.
I receive about 300 emails a day, and Xobni allows me to manage conversations; find previous shared files, and just makes the whole experience so much easier. It’s search is also vastly superior to the somewhat rubbishy one built into Outlook 2003; which is what I use right now.
I guess, in essence, it’s made what I have to do easier and faster; so a big thankyou to whoever had that great idea 
Well, it does work, to an extent. But the features that existed in Outlook 07 (which I had on trial) don’t translate back, and it treats them as folders, and crashes when you try to load them 
I’m talking mainly about the RSS feeds thing, which is something I was using quite a lot 
Anyhow, everything else seems to work ,but the RSS feeds just WONT and they cause the program to shut itself down, which is semi-understandable really, so just delete the folders before you even try to load them. Saves a lot of pain and timewasting 
