For our Office 2007 customers, Microsoft released Office 2007 Service Pack 1 this week. From the Office Outlook Team Blog, the SP provides the following:
- General performance and responsiveness improvements
- POP3 mail download improvements
- Improved support for RSS feeds
- Meeting reliability improvements
Download via Microsoft Update, Office Update, or the Microsoft Download Center. IMS v4 is fully compatible with the update.
Michael Linenberger, author of best-selling Microsoft Outlook book Total Workday Control and ClearContext partner, publishes a newsletter chock full of Outlook tips and ways to leverage the TWC system. In the latest he talks about IMS v4 and how it works with TWC. If interested, you can sign up to receive the newsletter at the link at the bottom of the page.
"I spend the majority of my time communicating with colleagues, customers, and partners. As a result, Outlook is the application that I use the most. I receive about 100 e-mail messages per day from Microsoft employees, and many more from customers and partners."
"It’s very important that I hear what people think about our products and our company. Yet I need to balance that against the very real risk of information overload from all the e-mail that I receive."
At least Bill has the luxury of assistant(s) to help out. Read the rest of the post for other interesting tidbits (for example, he just started using tasks in Outlook this year…).