Jessica Arnold gives us a look at Outlook 2007

It adds RSS but does it add newsgroups (NNTP)?
 
Will it, or can I import my PST file?

Can it "Save as web page" your calender in an automated fashion (e.g. Every time you exit Outlook)? Answered but don't like the answer I got.

Have they removed "Plain Text" from the Outlook editor? Does it only support HTML messages now?

Have they removed the problems relating to this yet?

It's about time we get some infos on Outlook 2007! Word and Excel have been stealing the show for far too long!

Can't wait for the download to complete!

Thanks!

Scoble gets all the good interviews...poor chazz.

Good to see the ribbon implemented here as well.

Loving Office 2007 so far.

I'm about three minutes into the video, so it may be answered in there, but: is IMAP support improved. In Outlook 2003, a lot of stuff just doesn't work with an IMAP account. You don't get the toaster popups when you receive new mail, if people send you tasks or appointments per e-mail they don't work on an IMAP account, and a few other things.

I would greatly appreciate seeing all (or at least some of) that stuff fixed.

Hey scoble, you mentioned your boss suddenly in the conversation. Who is your boss anyway?

izzy wrote:

Hey scoble, you mentioned your boss suddenly in the conversation. Who is your boss anyway?

I think it's Jeff.

Yeah, my boss is Jeff Sandquist. We got a new camera, which makes things a lot nicer.

Manip wrote:



SlackmasterK wrote:  Beer28 wrote: She's hot! Jeez, dude, let's try to keep this professional.  Weren't you banned?

wtf? Nobody said that SlackmasterK...

I see banned people, posting around like regular people. They don't know they're banned.

TommyCarlier wrote:

Manip wrote: SlackmasterK wrote: Beer28 wrote: She's hot! Jeez, dude, let's try to keep this professional.  Weren't you banned? wtf? Nobody said that SlackmasterK...

I see banned people, posting around like regular people. They don't know they're banned.

Interesting, how do you see whether your banned or not. I also made a sexist remark about a person in a video once and my post was removed. It was the video on code snippets in visual studio. Could it be I am banned then?

I usually just delete posts that are sexist.

In the video they showed that you can open native Office documents inside Outlook without much fanfare to see if its something you need to act upon. This might be a silly question (and I'm not a beta tester), but couldn't they add to Outlook to where it reads the metadata of the file so you can see how many pages are actually in it? Its nice to see you can open it in Outlook, but file size can be deceiving.

scobleizer wrote:

I usually just delete posts that are sexist.

My first post and its about this (oh crap).. How is it that "X is hot" comments are sexist?

"Sexism is discrimination against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits."

The comments are at worst a very tacky way of saying an individual is attractive but should be seen as a complement. That said, they should be deleted because it's all about the technology right? So I promise my next post will be about the technology.

Its still discrimination just positive discrimination

Cyonix wrote:

Its still discrimination just positive discrimination

There's no such thing... Positive discrimination means you are negatively discriminating against someone else.

It violates my living room rule. It's rude and not polite. And, yes, it is discriminatory cause I don't see you treating the men here that way. It sends a message that you're only interested in women's bodies, not their minds. We as an industry have a tough enough time trying to get women interested in geekier fields, so I'm pretty senstitive to this kind of behavior.

scobleizer wrote:

It violates my living room rule. It's rude and not polite. And, yes, it is discriminatory cause I don't see you treating the men here that way. It sends a message that you're only interested in women's bodies, not their minds. We as an industry have a tough enough time trying to get women interested in geekier fields, so I'm pretty senstitive to this kind of behavior.

What if Amanda Congdon said you were hot?  Would it have been more appropriate if Beer28 had said she's both hot and smart?  If it's any consolation, she clearly had a detailed knowledge of the product.

Replicate alot of the functionality of Outlook 2007 into OWA and that'll totally rock!!

Being able to access all your mail/calendar/contact information from a browser is totally flexible and useful.

Obviously not everything can be done in the browser, alot can be done though.

Great video

OK this post is wildly off-topic and has nothing to do with the video (Feel free to remove it if it is too inappropriate - I don't mind).

Smart women are far hotter than hot women (did that make any sense?), geek girls (and game girls) too. None of which has anything to do with the comments made here.

We are not posting on some gaming site, or other "boys club" and although C9 isn't exactly an internal forum there should be some level of peer respect. Even if you think a thought about the professional in the video (male or female) it really isn't necessary to post about it.

Apart from the fact it adds nothing positive to the discussion, it also is disrespectful to anyone who is trying to make a 'serious' point.

It is almost like saying -- "Shut-up and dance for daddy." -- It shows that level of disrespect in my opinion.

Nice, can't wait to use it!

The 'jessica on vacation' on the calender at the sharepoint server, is it planned to get this like 'ajax style' so you see it updating while reading the calender? So I know it at the moment it is set and don't need to refresh to see if she is availible at a timeblock.

What happends when I send a calender outside (the non outlook users part), with the html calender true email, does it gets updated in some way? So when I retrieve the html calender and read the invitation 2 days later, I am able to pick a time which is actually still availible. And not need to pick a few before I am able to have a free slot.

Like if I was your client and you send me one of those mails, and for some reason I am not able to respond directly. When I got the time to read mail, I expect you send me the thing with the current state. It comming true a dynamic channel not true a static (paper) channel.

I see a tabletPC in the background, are there any improvements specialy for the tablet?

Beer28 wrote:

She's hot!

Jeez, dude, let's try to keep this professional.  Weren't you banned?

SlackmasterK wrote:



Beer28 wrote: She's hot!

Jeez, dude, let's try to keep this professional.  Weren't you banned?

wtf? Nobody said that SlackmasterK...

Awesome interview! Can't wait to get my hands on this.
Is it just me or is the camera work in this interview particularly good? Great job Scoble.

Mysterious Hacker wrote:

wooterz!

lol.

Rowan wrote:



Mysterious Hacker wrote: wooterz!

lol.

Sorry, I just can't stop laughing at all this...

... The recent CSS stuff, that is; not the video.

Everything sounds nice... We'll see

I too want to ask if there will be newsgroups support. Currently, our choice of using Outlook Express is extremely outdated and in any case, why doesn't Office Outlook have native support for newsgroups yet? It has been 10 years now and this feature seems not even to have been considered. Newsgroups offer a wealth of support information and it is time that this valuable resource could be accessed through a fast desktop program and not only through Google.

Robert - thanks for asking about ClearContext in the video.  I'm very excited about the new functionality Outlook 2007 provides and the opportunities we will have to build and extend on it.  FYI - we mention some of the Outlook 2007-focused features we’re working on for our Made for Office 2007 version in this blog post - http://blog.clearcontext.com/2006/04/theres_no_rest_.html . We’ll be talking more about ClearContext for Outlook 2007 in another post shortly after the O'07 B2 release.

Brad Meador
ClearContext

scobleizer wrote:

It violates my living room rule. It's rude and not polite. And, yes, it is discriminatory cause I don't see you treating the men here that way. It sends a message that you're only interested in women's bodies, not their minds. We as an industry have a tough enough time trying to get women interested in geekier fields, so I'm pretty senstitive to this kind of behavior.

Well said Scoble.  I appreciate the videos and work you do for C9.

SM

Manip wrote:



Cyonix wrote: Its still discrimination just positive discrimination

There's no such thing... Positive discrimination means you are negatively discriminating against someone else.

Wrong. Positive discrimination means exactly that: Positively discriminating against someone.

To discriminate it doesn't have to be negative. Look at the following:

Dictionary.com wrote:

dis·crim·i·na·tion: Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit

Comment removed at user's request.

Looks really nice, but am prefering Mozilla Thunderbird or evolution since there is no Linux version of Outlook.
Mozilla Thunderbird 2 will be the Ultimate Hit i promise you, and a hard competition for Outlook !!!

meadorbd wrote:

Robert - thanks for asking about ClearContext in the video.  I'm very excited about the new functionality Outlook 2007 provides and the opportunities we will have to build and extend on it.  FYI - we mention some of the Outlook 2007-focused features we’re working on for our Made for Office 2007 version in this blog post - http://blog.clearcontext.com/2006/04/theres_no_rest_.html . We’ll be talking more about ClearContext for Outlook 2007 in another post shortly after the O'07 B2 release.

Brad Meador
ClearContext

Robert has provide a great service to any Outlook 2003 user by mentioning ClearContext!!

I went straight out and googled it, sorry msn'd for it.

Install was very quick and simple and straight away found it to be a tool that assists you to keep track of all the communications and priorities your inbox.

Brad, simply a great tool!

Manip wrote:

It adds RSS but does it add newsgroups (NNTP)?

This is one of my personal gripes about Outlook... after all these years, I *STILL* have to open up Outlook Express to view newsgroups.

I like the presentation of Outlook 2007. When will  I get the Beta 2? 

Please email me at wellionaire@msn.com

scobleizer wrote:

Yeah, my boss is Jeff Sandquist. We got a new camera, which makes things a lot nicer.

"did I say big room?"

Awesome video, awesome overview, cant wait for the new Office system.

Keep it up

Have they fixed IMAP through SSL problems?

In all older versions of Outlook when you have a lot of folders with a lot of messages, switching between those folders hangs Outlook sometimes. I have this on 2 PCs of mine, also on my clients PCs. If you configure IMAP without SSL it is ok, though.

Office 2007 Beta 2 is now available for download here.  Looking good!

Yeah, well, blame Chris for posting it

daSmirnov wrote:

Office 2007 Beta 2 is now available for download here.  Looking good!

Sweet, but it's currently looking at a major server overload.  Anyone know any mirrors?

this is a load ov crap .....HIYA TOM!!

wat a load ov CRAP!!!!!EASY JASON PORTER!!!!

spoofnozzle wrote:

Manip wrote:It adds RSS but does it add newsgroups (NNTP)?

This is one of my personal gripes about Outlook... after all these years, I *STILL* have to open up Outlook Express to view newsgroups.

This stopped being a complaint for me the day off.ramp ceased being offered via NNTP.

If I were to keep up with Usenet, I think I'd use Google Groups to create an RSS feed and watch it in Outlook 2007.

No, it's not the way OE does newgroups, but I sure have gotten used to RSS feeds as a way to keep me aware of an unbelieveable amount of information across an embarrassing number of topics.

Think I'll give this a shot to see how well that works.

John

Well, hoping that Office 12 takes up less space than the video advertising it, I'll be here a while.

So for those of us sentenced to work in an environment which uses Lotus Notes for Email,  will there be MAPI support for Outlook 2007?

I installed Beta 2, and unfortunately the Domino Connector from Office 2003 does not like to work with 2007.

I don't see Notes listed as a possible MAPI provider in the App config.

I know it's beta, so I'm not surprised, but curious if there is something in the works

Slick looking program!

Questions:

1.   Do you need the full Office suite to use the benefits like previewing PowerPoint slides or Excel spreadsheets sent as an attachement?

(Seeing one can get PPT viewer and so on, would be a neat feature if this is built into Outlook without buying the program)

2.  Do you need Office 2007 or can you still use Office XP say and buy Outlook 2007 seperately?

3.  If yes, will you have two Outlooks on your machine (XP/2007)?

cheers
Tom

Jessica

In this video you mentioned about ".ics" and here is more info.

".ics" ==> Internet Connection Sharing
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=268986