I've been playing around with the Microsoft Office 2007 Beta that was released last week and I really like most of what I've seen.
I don't use most of Office at work so I don't really wide range of experience yet. I'm looking forward to playing with Groove with the actual server for once. Also, I'm looking forward to seeing SharePoint 2007...especially the SharePoint Designer 2007 as it seems to be a little bit of a nod to Lotus Notes and its Domino Designer client.
I appreciate the new Notebooks structure in OneNote 2007. I don't have a tablet so I'm not using OneNote to its fullest but I'm getting a lot of use out of it typing out notes, ToDo lists, etc.
I did find one gotcha with Outlook 2007 so far. Outlook 2007 does not work with an Exchange 5.5 server. Actually, when I try to connect to my Exchange 5.5 server, Outlook 2007 doesn't even let me run in offline mode...it just errors out and quits.
That sucks. I know Exchange 5.5 is old and is unsupported. That doesn't change the fact that my legacy mail server is running Exchange 5.5 and it's not going to be upgraded. I also can't connect that client to my production Exchange server...so I'm kinda high and dry for Outlook 2007. Too bad, looks like it has a lot to offer.
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