Review by Rebecca Haden

Unlike most reviewers, I hadn’t previously used Outlook. It seemed to be just an ordinary mail program, and I use something else for that. I really like the idea of Outlook 2007 though. I like being able to type in a task as it comes up and then sort and categorize it by project later. I like being able to review a whole email conversation easily, and to sort mail documents by category. I like the color-coding. I liked the thought of being able to track email campaigns handily.nIn reality, the program was so slow on my computer that I gave up in frustration long before I had gotten all the features integrated into my daily routine.nNormally, I wouldn’t hold that against a business program. My work computer may be a work computer by day, but my kids use it for WoW by night and I use it for pictures and email and blogging and so forth. A high-powered business program might just need a more high-powered or a more strictly business machine.nHowever, this is billed as a small business application. I use the rest of Office for business without difficulty, so it seems as though Outlook should be just as friendly to my home/business computer.nI haven’t given up entirely. I’ll just have to play with it more sometime when I don’t have to get any work done.