Microsoft faces an anti-Outlook 2010

Posted by Jonh On Monday, June 29, 2009 2 comments

Technology - The fact that Word continues to manage the display of HTML in Outlook 2010 has created a petition, supported by Twitter. Faced with tens of thousands of subscribers, Microsoft has decided to defend himself.

"Outlook is broken. Repair it. "That is what we read in large characters on the site fixoutlook.org, a page devoted to the decision to keep Microsoft Word as an engine to display HTML-formatted emails in Outlook 2010.

Catch on the support, the authors of this page show the display of emails has not changed since Outlook 2000 and Word is the worst software to display HTML emails. They also explain that emails created in Outlook display poorly in other software.

To boost its petition, fixoutlook.org created an account on Twitter and there are already over 20 000 users rallied to their cause.

Until now deaf in the campaign, Microsoft has finally decided to react. On the official blog of the firm, William Kennedy, Vice-President in charge of the Office, justifies the choice to keep Word as display engine.

Also catch on the support, said that the usefulness of Word is especially in the creation of complex emails. It also explains that there is no standard HTML format, showing that Word is solely responsible for the display issues.

Delighted to have a response from Microsoft, the authors of the campaign immediately responded, pointing out that the root of the problem is not displaying emails, but how Word creates emails in HTML format.

Outlook 2010 continues to return to Word

Posted by Jonh On Friday, June 26, 2009 1 comments

In contrast, a standard Australian activist geageerd, and in such a way that there is considerable turmoil arose on Twitter. According to Dave Greiner of The Email Standards Project is clear from an early preview version that Outlook 2010 the same errors in the rendering of html as its predecessor.

Reason for this is that Microsoft is maintaining the engine of Word, which is much smaller than the rendering engine, for example IE8. The mail rendering engine used since Outlook 2007. Critics call it a huge mistake, because that engine is very limited in the creation of HTML pages. This is a limitation for people who want to prepare extended formatted mails. Moreover, in html emails are not displayed correctly in Outlook.

Greiner has therefore a Twitter action with its website set up Microsoft in an attempt to change its mind to. While the preview version of Outlook 2010 is not yet officially published, and Microsoft had not yet out that the Word engine maintenance, Redmond has already posted a response.

It's a feature, not a bug

In that blog post shows one of the heads of the Office division of Microsoft, William Kennedy, that are just feel extremely suitable for html rendering. Tools such as SmartArt and styles in Word to "Power of the Word in Outlook," says Kennedy. He criticizes the work of Greiner, according to him a maker of software for email marketing, and states that "there is no widely accepted consensus within the sector on which subset of html used for interoperability in e-mails."


The second reason for this choice is that the engine Word much less susceptible to attacks because it does not run Web Scripting. Thus, Kennedy or implied that the security of Internet Explorer right in that area greatly to be desired. How Greiner to preview the software that came his test, have not known.

Keep a record in Outlook of calls you make to contacts

Posted by Jonh On Friday, June 19, 2009 2 comments

In today's world, time is money, so you want to keep track of how much time you spend consulting with a client, researching information, or otherwise spending billable time making phone calls. Also, you'll want to keep a record of what you discussed, decisions you made, issues to follow up on, and other important content of your conversation. You can do all this by creating a journal entry from within Contacts. While you type notes to document your conversation, Outlook will record the call length. If you want to, you can also look up previous calls and other journal entries related to that contact.
The following procedure assumes your computer and modem are set up for automatic phone dialing. If they aren't, learn how to do this by typing automatic dialing in the Office Assistant or on the Answer Wizard tab in the Outlook Help window, and then clicking Search. Also, see Using Outlook to dial local calls that require an area code.
Track a phone call to a contact
1. Open the contact you want to call.
2. On the Actions menu, point to Call Contact, and then click the phone number.
3. To record the start and end time of the call, select the Create new journal entry when starting new call check box.
If you select this check box, after you start the call, a journal entry opens with the timer running. You can type notes in the text box of the journal entry while you talk.
4. Click Start Call.
5. Pick up the phone handset, and then click Talk.
6. When you are finished, click Pause Timer to stop the clock, and then click Save and Close.
7. Click End Call, and then hang up the phone.
To view the new journal entry for the call, click the Activities tab, and then in the Show list, click Journal.
Note :- If you don't see the entry for the phone call when you click the Activities tab in the contact and then click Journal in the Show list, you might need to change how the contact is filed.

Test Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Posted by Jonh On Wednesday, June 3, 2009 1 comments

New version and new look for Outlook, the e-mail program included in the Office suite. In this vintage 2007, Microsoft has changed the look rather dull and gray interface, without changing the distribution of most commands.

Unlike the 2007 versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, to tape here in the main interface, but the usual menus File, Edit, etc.. This facilitates the transition to Outlook 2007 if you are familiar with a previous version. The tape does its appearance as when composing a message or recording an appointment. In the main window, a new taskbar, retractile summarizes your appointments and tasks of the day.

When composing a letter, the tabbed Ribbon appears, allowing you to format the text and attachments, contacts and images. A similar window appears when scheduling appointments, definition of tasks or editing contacts. As in other Office 2007 programs, the tabs appear and disappear depending on the current activity. Thus, it is only after you have selected an image you will see that on its formatting. All this requires a minimum of practice.

More options for tracking couriers

Items that you report for a follow-up appear in the taskbar, it boasts about this greater flexibility in the marking. Simply right-click on the indicator of Outlook mail to specify the date you want to pursue it. And you can assign a color code to my post to better spot.


When you receive a message deemed suspicious by Outlook, which prevents the loading of images and other content suspect until you give permission. Simply click on the warning message opens a list of options to download pictures and joined the management of other security settings. You will also receive a warning message when you forward or reply to an e identified as suspect by Outlook.
The composition of messages has been improved, including the formatting of letters. The use of the tape tabs extends the capabilities of Outlook. When you insert a picture, you get an overview of the changes that you make from a menu of styles. Put the text highlighted, translate, or find a synonym for a selected word are all possibilities.

Management RSS
Outlook 2007 lets you add RSS feeds to the list of files making possible the reading of his son since news like this software. However, these flows can not be selected in Internet Explorer 7, not in other browsers such as Firefox, for example.

The integration between the different applications of Office 2007 has improved. For example, if you receive an attachment in a Powerpoint presentation, click the right mouse button on the file name allows you to preview a slide show. Similarly, you can get a preview of Word documents or Excel spreadsheets included in an Outlook message. You can even highlight the columns and rows of an Excel spreadsheet but not edit them.

Thus, we would like to mark with keywords and search email in order to organize them according to their content as allowed by Gmail, not just the break between records. Many newsletters were left deprived of their pictures and showed white spots on their reading in Outlook 2007. Under Outlook 2003, these letters were impeccable HTML. This is due to use Outlook 2007 from the same HTML standards as Word 2007 rather than Internet Explorer to view the messages.