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| From: Microsoft Software
List Price: $149.95
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 252
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows Xp Professional, Windows Xp Home Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: with Business Contact Manager
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.5
MPN: NFA-00023
Model: 45931G
UPC: 882224581905
EAN: 0882224581905
ASIN: B000WEJYM4
Release Date: January 14, 2008
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 47
 Disastrous April 9, 2008
_porterhouse (Los Angeles, CA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
First, I must say that nothing elicits "Mac-envy" so much as yet another revision to the Windows interface. This go-'round, the fine folk at Redmond have broken out the box of crayons, and writ large with the primaries. It's garish. There are some options for the Office suite by which it may all be toned down a notch, which helps. But one wishes Microsoft could get a designer on staff who has some sense of elegance+function when designing user interfaces.
What you need to know about Outlook 2007 is the following:
1) It is slower that its predecessor.
2) It is MUCH MUCH slower if you aren't running Vista
3) While it introduces a handful of minor, but helpful new features such as color categories, it manages to make the Rube-Goldberg apparatus of an interface into an even more confusing mess. Understand - this is not due to the much-maligned new Office 2007 "ribbon" - it is due to a whole host of new peculiar UI elements. Good luck sorting it all out.
...And perhaps most importantly,
4) Pieces of it will become disabled after Windows Update does its thing. For instance, after allowing Windows Update to proceed, my rules disappeared, as did the "Rules and Alerts" item in the Tools menu. This resulted in the complete inability to create rules. Perhaps you don't use rules. I use rules a great deal. This has rendered Outlook 2007 unusable for me. I've put a lot of hours into attempting to sort the problem out - while I've found a number of people who had the same thing happen to them, I've found no solutions. Microsoft's resources are no help at all.
BOTTOM LINE: Do NOT install this piece of software. Its improvements are negligible at best, it is slower and more difficult to use, the interface is inelegant and kludgy, and worst of all, parts of it will, in effect, disappear.
 Awsome Simple Business Contact Manager June 13, 2008
Michael Parish (Nampa, ID USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Microsoft has done it again! Outlook with Business Contact Manager 2007 is a very solid, simple, and intuitive small business platform to work from. I have been in sales for over 10 years and have used a variety of solutions, including ACT and I like Business Contact Manager the best so far. If you enjoy actually selling as opposed to updating information continually, this is the solution for you. For instance, ACT has many useless and cumbersome bells and whistles that require input of information multiple times in multiple screens. Microsoft left these out...thankfully. In fact, I spent more time updating information in ACT than actually using it to be productive. Act is also prone to databases corruption. Our data in ACT was corrupted at least 2-3 times in a year. ACT Synchronization is finicky at best. And ACT integration to accounting software is cumbersome and expensive. Microsoft has trimmed the fat and created a very streamlined platform that gets the job done. No corruption of data thus far. Accounting software integration is a breeze-I use Microsoft Accounting 2007-also a very solid small business solution if you don't need automated Payroll-a less expensive option to QuickBooks. Only having to enter information once, simple customization, and seamless 2-way integration with accounting software is why I gave this a 5. It is not perfect but it is the best I have used thus far. Highly recommended. You will not be disappointed.
Works very well, even with my smart phone and pda March 3, 2008
Chris A. Varney
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Flawless integration (once you download the add-in) with my pda or smart phone. I would recommend this over ACT 2008.
 I want my Outlook 2003 back!... March 4, 2008
Anetha Johnson (San Diego, CA United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ever since I installed this upgrade on my computer, all my programs have been running much slower. It takes twice as long for Outlook to load when I open it, and my computer optimization always needs recharging. I haven't taken the time to figure out how to do it yet, but when I do, I'm going to uninstall this Outlook 2007 and get my 2003 version back!
Not much different from Outlook 2003 March 14, 2008
anon_2003 (usa)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like Outlook and this product does what I need it to do and more. I've been using 2003 for a long time and this product is almost the same. The business contact manager is more for a salesperson or small business owner than for some one who just wants to keep track of their colleagues. I have also noticed that it takes a lot longer to open this outlook than it does 2003 and my computer runs slower when Outlook 2007 is open, so I don't leave this program running in the background like I did with 2003.
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