Outlook 2010 - testing times
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Office, Microsoft on
Microsoft recently made Office 2010 available as a technical preview for a limited audience, and having been invited to take part I thought it would be rude not to.
As its very early days, (it’s not expected to be released until next year), I thought it would be prudent to install it alongside Office 2007. However, that plan was thwarted when the installer told me that the Office 2010 64-bit version I was trying to install would not play with Office 2007 32-bit on my system at the same time.
I therefore plucked up the courage, and uninstalled Office 2007. I’m now running a beta of Office 2010 on the Windows 7 RC. And it’s pretty much my main system. Hmm, don’t try this at home kids.
In fact the main issue I’m having is that Xobni, the Outlook plugin I love so much, isn’t working for me. A quick search pulls up the fact that some have got Xobni working with Outlook 2010 - but it’s not working for me. I even tried the old school, uninstall, reboot and reinstall approach. But still nada, it won’t appear.
This is slightly ironic as I’ve been evangelising the usefulness of Xobni to colleges and they’ve told me I was spot on - so to no longer be able to run it myself is well, a shame.
Xobni has said that it will start testing on Outlook 2010 when version 1.8 Xobni is out, which it is, so hopefully there might be an update soon. But at the moment I’m having to live without it.
Other issues I’ve faced with Office 2010 are both Word and Outlook crashing unexpectedly, which didn’t happen before and some other oddities, such as a message when I launch Outlook saying that it’s not the default mail client, even though it is.
Word also warned about opening a file, as it claimed it ‘originated from an Internet location’, which made no sense as it was merely an email attachment. Is that what it meant? If so, it’s going to be doing a lot of complaining, as quite a lot of people will be getting their documents, from, “an Internet location”. If not, are we going back to paper and hand delivery?
Other than that, I like the new look and feel, especially of the now ribbon equipped Outlook 2010, and the new feature to be able to save your paste formatting style is handy too.
If only my Xobni worked…
Rated: 60% (2 votes)
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