So I've just installed RC1 of Vista and I'm at a crossroads. Where do I keep my personal information? I have the option of keeping it in Outlook (2007), Windows, or Windows Live Mail. They're all Microsoft products, but none of them work together.
1. Contacts. Outlook has it's address book, Vista has it's Contacts folder which holds VCards, and Windows Live Mail has it's own area for contacts. Messenger integrates with Windows Live Mail's contact set.
2. Calendar. Outlook has it's own one, Windows Calendar allows me to create them, and Windows Live Mail has it's own calendar (which you can't sync anymore... yay).
3. E-mail. Luckily I can use IMAP for most of my e-mail accounts. Except Windows Live Mail. I can either hit the website or I can do it in outlook. Windows Mail does not support HTTP e-mail accounts.
Anyway, here's my rant. I'm using 3 Microsoft products / technologies. Why aren't they helping me keep everything in sync?
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jmacdonagh wrote:So I've just installed RC1 of Vista and I'm at a crossroads. Where do I keep my personal information? I have the option of keeping it in Outlook (2007), Windows, or Windows Live Mail. They're all Microsoft products, but none of them work together.
Sure they do they all use WinF.. oh. Sorry.
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PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
jmacdonagh wrote:So I've just installed RC1 of Vista and I'm at a crossroads. Where do I keep my personal information? I have the option of keeping it in Outlook (2007), Windows, or Windows Live Mail. They're all Microsoft products, but none of them work together.
1. Contacts. Outlook has it's address book, Vista has it's Contacts folder which holds VCards, and Windows Live Mail has it's own area for contacts. Messenger integrates with Windows Live Mail's contact set.
2. Calendar. Outlook has it's own one, Windows Calendar allows me to create them, and Windows Live Mail has it's own calendar (which you can't sync anymore... yay).
3. E-mail. Luckily I can use IMAP for most of my e-mail accounts. Except Windows Live Mail. I can either hit the website or I can do it in outlook. Windows Mail does not support HTTP e-mail accounts.
Anyway, here's my rant. I'm using 3 Microsoft products / technologies. Why aren't they helping me keep everything in sync?
I totally feel your pain.
You know what you could use to make it all work together? Ever heard of something called Hailstorm?
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PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
Rossj wrote:
jmacdonagh wrote: So I've just installed RC1 of Vista and I'm at a crossroads. Where do I keep my personal information? I have the option of keeping it in Outlook (2007), Windows, or Windows Live Mail. They're all Microsoft products, but none of them work together.
Sure they do they all use WinF.. oh. Sorry.
<rimshot/>
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LaBomba
Summer
Too many teams not talking to each other...
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PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
LaBomba wrote:Too many teams not talking to each other...
That's one thing...
Hailstorm was an awesome solution to these kind of problems. Too bad it got killed by ignorance. -
jsampsonPC
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Paolo, do you look alot like Billy Bob Thornton, or is that an actual picture of him in your avatar?
Secondly, what team do you work on at MS? -
PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
jsampsonPC wrote:Paolo, do you look alot like Billy Bob Thornton, or is that an actual picture of him in your avatar?
That is, indeed, me
jsampsonPC wrote:Secondly, what team do you work on at MS?
Windows Desktop Search. -
jsampsonPC
SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com
Crazy...has anybody ever told you that you resembled Billy Bob Thornton? Or is this just a picture that happened to catch you at your rare thornton-angle?
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PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
jsampsonPC wrote:Crazy...has anybody ever told you that you resembled Billy Bob Thornton? Or is this just a picture that happened to catch you at your rare thornton-angle?
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jsampsonPC
SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com
It can't be that bad. Afterall, he did hook up with Angelina Jolie, did he not?
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LaBomba
Summer
PaoloM wrote:
LaBomba wrote: Too many teams not talking to each other...
That's one thing...
Hailstorm was an awesome solution to these kind of problems. Too bad it got killed by ignorance.
Don't worry Google's on it now...
for those out there who don't recall...Hailstorm was the brainchild of one Mark Lucovsky, yeah same guy when Ballmer found out he was leaving for Google freaked out and tossed a couple chairs around.
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