Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files

Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World "Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems that fixes the problem going forward, although previous emails will remain super-sized. This could be a problem for email programs that limit message sizes, such as Gmail or BlackBerry."

Monster email files?

[richdun]

So what if they're just covered in shiny material and cost 10x more than regular email files? The guy in the blue shirt told me they were worth it.

Re:Stop the presses!!!

[Zouden]

Yeah, they should really put their products through some sort of testing phase, perhaps open to members of the public so that bugs like this can be reported and fixed.

Re:A bug in a beta?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh my heavens! Microsoft fucking up email? What is the world coming to?

EOUS?

[natehoy]

Buttercup: Westley, what about the E.O.U.S.'s?
Westley: Emails Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
[Immediately, an E.O.U.S. attacks him]

Re:Email is largely useless anyway

[LostCluster]

E-mail's going away because broadcast messages are better served over RSS, quick person-to-person notes cam travel over IM, SMS, or Twitter, and business documents can be transferred over secured web sites. Whole lot of new ways of doing things...

Fixed going forward

[neiljt]

Sounds like half a solution to me. When will they fix the problem going backward?

Bug Creates Monster

[Anonymous Coward]

Tokyo is so screwed!

Really??

[ArcadeNut]

Is /. turning into Fox News now?

Re:Stop the presses!!!

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

*closes GMail and whistles innocently.*

Re:Outlook 64bit

[MightyMartian]

Uninstalling it and moving back to Office 2007 32bit fixed all my problems. Some of the new features are pretty cool though, and I'm looking forward to having a true 64bit Office SOE Workstation

Because we all know just how much better email is in 64bit.

Re:A bug in a beta?

[ls671]

Of course, IMAP, POP and SMTP are so limitative that the World needs proprietary solutions and Exchange servers in order to save itself ;-))

More seriously IMAP is fine ;-)

Re:EOUS?

[Knackered]

[Immediately, an E.O.U.S. attacks him]

Surely the last line should be:

"You've got MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILL!"

Re:That's nothing compared to bugs in Outlook 2007

[Hurricane78]

MS employs the “upside-down pyramid” model of software lifecycle design.

It works like this:
app = code(design(BASIC_ARCHITECTURE)) # original design and intentions are instantly forgotten
bf = marketing.getBlingFactory();
while (sales.sell(app)) {
    f = bf.getNewFeature()
    management.fuckUp(f)
    sales.addLockIn(f)
    hammerIntoSomethingPhysicallyPossible(f,IGNORE_MANAGEMENT)
    try {
        code(f)
    } catch (ManagementExpectsItToBeFinishedAlreadyError) {
        tieTogheterLooseStrings(f,[SPAGHETTI_STYLE,IGNORE_BUG_HAZARDS,MAKE_HASTE])
    }
    try {
        app.add(f)
    } catch (DoesntFitArchitectureAnymoreError) {
        p = code(new Patchwork(NASTY))
        p.add(f)
        app.add(p,USE_BRUTE_FORCE)
    }
}

So instead of doing a proper redesign and rewrite, where everything would fit nicely, they only cram more onto a tiny basis.
Windows ME is the perfect example: A 32-bit extension of a 16-bit graphical shell of an 8-bit operating system coded for a 4-bit processor by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. ;)

Re:A bug in a beta?

[Nathrael]

It's like the Magic 8 Ball told me - "Outlook not so good"!