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Paul Thurrott´s SuperSite for Windows has posted a review on Outlook 2002



Since its humble beginnings as the weakest link in Office 97, Outlook has grown into an essential tool for millions of people, myself included. At the time of this writing, I´m averaging over 150 email messages per day, and I use Outlook´s Calendar and Tasks components to keep my schedule moving; I also use Outlook Contacts as my default address book. So Outlook is, for me at least, a mission critical application. And with the release of each version of Outlook, I upgrade with some sense of dread, a sense that something horrible is going to happen. Thankfully, I back up.

I say "thankfully" because Outlook 2002 (Figure) completely hosed my current PST file several times on different installs. In the end, I had to completely rebuild my Contacts, Inbox, Calendar, and Tasks folders, from scratch, before I could use Outlook 2002 daily. And though this might seem like a damning introduction to this product, fear not: Overall, my experiences have been mostly positive. And in speaking with others that have upgraded from Office 2000 to Office XP, I seem to be the only one that´s experienced this problem. So I´m going to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt on this one.
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