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Microsoft Office 2010, Dissected
CWmike notes a review by Preston Gralla of the soon-to-be-released Microsoft Office 2010. "I review plenty of software packages throughout the course of a year, and it's rare that I come across one that I believe will truly make a difference in the way that I work or use my computer. With Office 2010, which recently hit RTM status, it is one of those times. The main attraction, as far as I'm concerned, is the Outlook makeover that makes it far easier to cut through e-mail overload and keep up with your ever-expanding group of contacts on social networking sites. There's also an improved Ribbon that now works across all Office applications, and some very useful new PowerPoint tools for giving Internet-based presentations and handling video. Question is: Is Office 2010 good enough to stop the defection to Google Apps? Some large enterprises are seriously considering jumping from Exchange to Gmail, or already have, reports Robert Mitchell. The final version of Microsoft Office Web Apps, the Web-based version of Office, isn't yet available but is expected before summer."
The problem is that Google Apps is good enough for many of us and it just works.
"I used to agree with this...but now that I have spent more time in a business setting, I can say that there are very real reasons why top posting and html email make sense."
Then fail to provide any reasons why top posting would make sense.
Oh yeah, and for a Microsoftie to say "...open your mind a tiny bit...", well, it's very funny at least.
I'd say he took the blue pill.
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But MS made it downright *IMPOSSIBLE* to reply selectively to quoted parts of an e-mail. I think it used to work in 2003, but in Outlook 2007 you can no longer do it. You MUST put 100% of your reply at the top, no matter how much you want to reply to a quote of the original (well you can copy/paste and reply to your own "pasted quote" but it is retarded).
Bullcrap, I did it about 10 minutes ago in Outlook 2007.
Pay attention because this is a really, really complicated procedure:
1) Click Reply
2) Position your cursor at the end of the line you want to reply to
3) Press Enter
4) Type your reply
That was pretty fucking hard, wasn't it, you complete retard?
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