Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Outlook 2007, Yep Still Sucks

I have just spent near an hour trying to figure out how to auto save my incoming Google Adwords pdf report attachments into a folder located on my drive. After rummaging through a lot of people's attempts at VB scripting, I am left with the same thought as before.....

Shouldn't a "Premiere Application" of the order and magnitude of Outlook 2007, do this already?

The answer is YES.

I'm not sure that I understand this lack of functionality on the part of Outlook. If I were discussing some other mail applications, like Entourage, Thunderbird, Apple's Mail, or some other smaller email client, I could understand, but this is Outlook folks....the "killer mail application". This is the mail application that is supposed to put all other in their place and make them cry. Yet for me to accomplish something very simple, I need to learn VB or worse just run the VB as a macro?

What? Macro? I thought those days were over....This is the new internet, Web 2.0, fast machines, fast CPU cycles, abundant ram, intelligent UIs, sleek design. Macro? Really?

This just makes me want to weep.

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