Microsoft releases patch for Outlook 2007, speed boost promised
We’ve been complaining, we’ve been trying to do what we can to improve things (including disabling most fun plugins), but Outlook 2007 has been dogged with performance problems since it debuted (actually in complaints started in beta). Microsoft has finally released a patch for Outlook 2007 that is supposed improve the performance issues:
Microsoft indicated that the problem stemmed from RSS feeds, email, and calendar files all being stored in the same .PSD file which as one might imagine could grow in size rather quickly depending on the user. The problem lies not with the software, but how users are using the software. Jessica Arnold Outlooks Program Manager told ComputerWorld “Outlook wasn’t designed to be a file dump, it was meant to be a communications tool…There is that fine line, but we don’t necessarily want to optimize the software for people that store their e-mail in the same .PST file for ten years.”
Source: Microsoft speeds up Outlook 2007 - Download Squad
Vista’s Windows Update didn’t flag it for me today, so I downloaded it manually. Have I noticed anything different? Not really. But it is Saturday and e-mailing hasn’t been high on my list of activities today.
In the quote above, it is important to note that they are right. Keeping a ton of e-mail, especially old e-mail and calendar items, is pointless. I let auto-archive run and do its thing every month. Copernic indexes the archived e-mails so nothing it lost.
Also don’t forget to compact the mailbox periodically. I’ll cover that in another post later.
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3 opinions for Microsoft releases patch for Outlook 2007, speed boost promised
Teri
Apr 15, 2007 at 2:10 pm
I swear that sometimes I am the only one who doesn’t use Outlook. It gave me problems years ago, and I never looked back.
maran
Jul 3, 2008 at 4:36 am
pls give me a patch file for outlook2007
Ken Thomas
Jul 4, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Oh Jesus. Are you kidding, or do you just swallow the MicroSoft propaganda lollypop, Koolaid and all?
I have every email I’ve sent or received since 1989 in installation of everything from Elm to Eudora to Thunderbird. Why shouldn’t I? The email standard was set then and it’s just a matter of following it; it was designed to be infinitely expansible.
Optimizing storage and access in a dump file such as a .pst is not that hard either– if you document what you’ve done and have a bit of control.
All that this demonstrates, it that MicroSoft doesn’t have the capacity to define and follow standards, and is a lugubrious beast that can’t get simple things done because of lack of planning, incompetence and infighting. Big
surprise.
Kowtowing to their idiocy is another thing…
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