The Iron Yuppie

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Monday, February 26, 2007

Good and Bad from MS

Good things about MS products recently:

Live Writer continues to impress me. No tool comes close in ease of setup and ease of use... except I still can't figure out why I'm having problems uploading images. Oh well.

Exchange/Outlook now auto parses the "To:" line so when I create a rule, the DL is auto-populated in the "When a message is sent to:" drop down list... nice work!

Bad:

Contacts in Outlook are a mess. It's much much harder than one would think to combine contacts together when you have dupes. And the integration with Windows Messenger is a blessing and a curse... great, I have all those random people I responded to in my contact box, but there's virtually no information about them. And in the process of trying to clean them up, somehow it broke the link between that and Windows Live Messenger and now the process of recreating all those IM contacts is incredibly painful. Ack!

posted by Iron Yuppie # 2/26/2007 12:01:00 PM

Comments:

So agree on contacts. But don't you think calendar is just as bad. Check this, dropdown this, text entry here, open dialog box here... 30boxes.com is so far ahead of the curve on data entry when compared to Outlook.

# posted by

C. Fuzzbang : February 26, 2007 2:32 PM

Blogger doesn't support uploading images from Windows Live Writer (or any other third-party clients). If you have a web/FTP account somewhere you can have Writer seamlessly upload images to that instead.

Hope that helps...

# posted by

Joe Cheng : February 26, 2007 4:10 PM

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