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3.0 stars
"Not Worth Upgrading as a Stand Alone"
Pros: Looks better than Outlook 2003
Cons: Migrating normal.doc template from 2003 is anything but easy
Summary: Having purchased Office 2007 for the purpose of getting Excel 2007, I decided to give my Outlook the "2007" treatment as it was part of the Small Business Edition. There's definitely a nicer feel and as many other's have said, you can't help thinking that Steve Bulmer threw a copy of Apple's OS at the MS developer and said "copy this" - right down to the choice of default typeface.
My feeling is that Outlook 2003 probably wasn't due for an upgrade but they added one in since it was part of the Office suite. Having said that, out of all the Office 2007 products I have used, it's the one that has changed least. There are no "Ribbons", menus seems to be a la 2003.
I'm a big user of styles and autotext in Word and liked the idea of using Word 2003 as my email editor. I maybe wrong but this option seems to have been dropped. Whilst this is no bad thing in itself, it appears that both Outlook 2007 and Word 2007 use two separate normal templates (Normal.docm and NormalEmail.docm) which makes it impossible to synchronise styles.
My advice, don't buy the upgrade as a stand alone but use it if you get it as part of the Office 2007
Where to buy
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007:
$81.49 - $119.99
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