Microsoft’s turn this time…Re: Making your own software work with your operating system

Man am I fuming right now. Got my new machine. Was doing the happy dance! Athlon X2 Dual Core, 2GB RAM, 400GB SATA, and loaded with Vista. Whoops!!! That’s the show stopper right there. Apparently Microsoft can’t get their top of the line productivity suite to work with their own flagship operating system. Hell it worked perfect on XP. I have spent the last the entire morning loading all my software, downloading ALL the updates, tweaking everything to work just so, getting my desktop JUST the way I like it. I load Office 2007 Enterprise because I am a die hard Outlook user, and what to my chagrin do you think happens?

This little beauty pops up…

MSVCR80.DLL missing…can’t start Microsoft Outlook 2007

I spend the next 2 hours researching and trying every so-called fix I could find to no avail. This ladies and gentlemen is one of the highest things on my pet peeve list. You need to make your own damn stuff work together before you release it to the public and make the folks that paid good money for your crap have to scramble to fix what should work out of the box. Common response to this thread on the different sites I hit…

*** Microsoft is working on it. ***

If this wasn’t so sad, I’d laugh my ass off. When do they stop “working on it”, and get it right? I used to ask my techs this question all the time at one of my old companies…

“How come you always have time to go back and do it again, but never have time to do it right the first time?”

 Food for thought huh?

Back to Outlook 2003 it seems.