>> What's slow in 2007?  I have Outlook 2003 at the moment and would be 
>> interested to know before our IT people force us to upgrade.  So far I 
>> have no speed issues in 2003, even with almost 10GB of emails now!
>
> Checking emails.  For me, it took around 3-5 seconds per email to download 
> from the server, which is crippling when you have a couple hundred emails 
> per day.

That would be really annoying, I don't think our IT guys could get away with 
that here - everyone would demand they fix it, as like you most people have 
hundreds of emails per day.

> Thunderbird managed to download all my emails in about 10 seconds total.

Does Thunderbird work with Exchange?

> There were other issues as well, but that was the big one for me.  If you 
> search for "slow outlook 2007" on the web, you'll get lots of examples - 
> it seems that everyone has a different problem with it.

I guess that's why our IT people are still testing Office 2007 then :-)

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