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Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files

Posted by timothy on from the rodents-of-unusual-size dept.

Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World "Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems that fixes the problem going forward, although previous emails will remain super-sized. This could be a problem for email programs that limit message sizes, such as Gmail or BlackBerry."

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  1. Really? by zmollusc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can they be any bigger than the emails dumbass users send around anyway? Single Lolcat pictures as ppt? A dozen numbers as a honking big Excel file?

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  2. Outlook 64bit by Mr_Plattz · · Score: 0, Troll

    While we're talking about it, I thought I'd use this space to inform others about how my Outlook 2010 beta is going on Windows 7 64bit. Back end is Exchange 2010 RTM.

    • Since installing it, IE -> Office 'Sharepoint Services Support'" literally doesn't work. Obviously supporting being able to click a Document in Sharepoint and have it Open or Edit inside it's Office counterpart is too hard. You can't even manually open a document from 'Open' and save it to Sharepoint.
    • Composing an Email Message will take 100% CPU until you send it. I can confirm this on other SOE's with AMD to Intel CPU's. Lucky I have a Core2Duo so my workstation is usable. My team mate who is also trying it is unlucky enough to only have a single CPU so he literally can't leave an email half composed. Well he can, but he can't do anything else.
    • Returning from PC from Standby leaves the Inbox empty, It reconnects, but just doesnt show any email. You need to click another folder than another one.
    • The Send-A-Smile 'feature' is stupid. Yes I want to give some feedback (for example, the above 3 points) but I'm NOT giving you a screenshot of my Corporate SOE Desktop while doing so.
    • It's slow, really slow.
    • Composing an Email in HTML default with a signature and then trying to change it to Plain-Text will cause all your cause in the Email to be deleted.

    Uninstalling it and moving back to Office 2007 32bit fixed all my problems. Some of the new features are pretty cool though, and I'm looking forward to having a true 64bit Office SOE Workstation