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I believe Microsoft Outlook is the most incompetent software in common use in the business world. Here’s reason #4,334 why I hate it:

• Suppose you’re in offline mode because it randomly disconnected you and is stuck in a login-loop when you try to reconnect.
• You forget you’re offline and you go to cancel a meeting by deleting it. It now wants you to send the cancellation. You click Send.
• You get an error message that you’re not connected. It asks if you want to try to send the cancellation again.
• Now you’re trapped. If you click Yes, you get the same error message. If you click No, you’ve just canceled the meeting on your calendar, but not on anyone else’s. There’s no recovering from that mistake. If you click Cancel, you’re back to the message that you need to send, but can’t be sent.
• Even reconnecting (assuming you can reconnect) doesn’t solve the problem. Now pick up the phone and tell your  meeting attendees they have to manually delete their copy of the meeting from their calendars.

So much hate.

This entry was posted by Stephen on Thursday, January 15th, 2009 at 7:39 pm and is filed under business, technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.