Fire the Product Manager
July 10th, 2009
Someone at Microsoft needs to be fired. Microsoft Outlook 2007 cannot import Excel 2007 files. Now who’s the idiot who decided (or neglected to consider) that when a product is as mature as Outlook, it should be able to import other files from the same release of Office?
Now is this a catastrophic end of the world? No, of course not! Granted saving an Excel 2007 file as a 2003 or earlier file isn’t the end of the world. But it seems like a pretty big oversight to me. And it seems like a lack of foresight on the part of the product manager that this doesn’t work seamlessly.
I’m just grateful that someone decided to let us know that this doesn’t work, and then they provided a work around.
Categories: Randoms/Musings, Software