So at work I am forced to work with Outlook 2003 for more than half a year now and it sucks:
- slow startup, locks the box for half a minute and takes another minute until it got itself updated displaying the 5 messages I got overnight
- the status bar tells me all folders are in sync, still it takes about half a minute when switching to the calendar to display those days with appointments bold
- no sane 7-day week display, why can't they add those 2 days to the 5 days display?
- no threaded view - therefore I blame outlook to be the number one source of TOFU also known as top posting, a violation of RFC 1855 (Please read HOWTO Edit Messages if you don't know what I'm referring to)
- slow search - it takes up to 5 minutes to perform a search threw the 1.2 GB while I got immediate results from the 5 GB cyrus box in my old company
- stupid keybindings: CTRL-f is search in almost any (even MS) application, not so in Outlook
- it seems Outlook/Exchange doesn't store first name and last name as different fields, therefore you're stuck with unuseful sorting unless you change defaults and use a macro (they provide one of the worst examples themselfes) to change entries
- can't combine calendars - I like to have a private and a company calendar so I don't have to bother with the type of entries and it simply cannot display entries from both as one (open-xchange, groupwise, google calender... can)
- can't combine contacts either - I'd like to search in my contacts as well as the internal users as well as the companys shared contacts
- can't save inline images as anything different from BMP
- several menue entries like resending message are only available when you open the message in a separate window
- doesn't offer a way to extract the message source, you can only extract the message header
to be continued...