Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files

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."

Comments

Really?

[zmollusc]

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?

Outlook 64bit

[Mr_Plattz]

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

Outlook what?

[cvtan]

2010? I can't even get Outlook 2003 to work. It got slower and slower until it wouldn't run at all. Thunderbird yes, Outlook no!

FCrist psot

[Anonymous Coward]

leaving 7he play

Re:That's nothing compared to bugs in Outlook 2007

[Anonymous Coward]

Searching a subfolder inside your inbox still doesn't work (it will find items but you can't open them),

Ehm, what? Can't replicate this error right now. (Outlook 2007 SP2)
Infact, the search function is pretty darn good. Just recently noticed the search find text within my attachments (well, excel documents, not sure about anything else).

It has the must unusual ideas about drag and drop attachments (sometimes it just attaches a GIF icon, but not the document itself)

Been using Outlook 2007 for about 2years now, never seen this happen.

And my favorite, it will randomly exit with an error (an error has occured, would you like to send a report?), when right clicking selected text to change the typeface...

I can only assume your copy of Outlook is completely borked. I'm not saying Outlook 07 is rocksolid, but hell, it works atleast 95% of the time for me.

Outlook 2003 was a miracle of speed and stability compared to 2007, so I imagine that, given their reputation to build worse and worse products over time, Outlook 2010 will be a disaster of titanic proportions.

Office 2007 is a sloppy bloated whore, no arguments there. Outlook is the one app that wasn't too badly affected in 2007, but that's not excuse for the entire Office 07 suite. That said, I'm guessing Office 2010 will be Office 2007 fine-tuned & optimised.

With a slew of "features" no one ever wanted or needed.

I didn't "need", nor did I "want" the new Ribbon UI. Fortunately, the ribbon is pretty darn good if you get over the shock of change. God forbid MS "try" to improve over time.

Ludicrous...always...

[YankDownUnder]

Microsoft, a company that is worth HOW MUCH? Can't ever seem to create ANY software without ANY issues, past, present or future? They've been going at this for how many years, and still can't get a single issue straight from the beginning? I just find this all so bloody amazing - they've got the money, the manpower, the resources, and still, they just can't do it. Right.