Outlook / BCM / SQL 2005 Express Windows 7

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Hi

I have just recently installed Windows 7 on a spare hard disk drive
with Outlook /BCM / SQL 2005 Express and we connect to a remote SQL
database on the SBS server in our network.

It struck me that the Windows 7 seems to run Outlook & BCM combo way
way better than on Windows XP Pro. We had Outlook 2003 but got enticed
into going with office 2007 office suite's BCM. I don't know if anyone
would agree with me but I'd love to hear other peoples opinions here.
I know I've never been able to consistently get Outlook/BCM 2007 to
work with XP Pro. It seems to me that we may be all better off?

Any thoughts?

JM
 
Windows XP is, after all, goig on 10 years old. I would expect any newer
operating system to work better with new programs than one designed 10 years
ago.

--
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After furious head scratching, mccartjt asked:

| Hi
|
| I have just recently installed Windows 7 on a spare hard disk drive
| with Outlook /BCM / SQL 2005 Express and we connect to a remote SQL
| database on the SBS server in our network.
|
| It struck me that the Windows 7 seems to run Outlook & BCM combo way
| way better than on Windows XP Pro. We had Outlook 2003 but got enticed
| into going with office 2007 office suite's BCM. I don't know if anyone
| would agree with me but I'd love to hear other peoples opinions here.
| I know I've never been able to consistently get Outlook/BCM 2007 to
| work with XP Pro. It seems to me that we may be all better off?
|
| Any thoughts?
|
| JM
 
I've been forced to have two hard disk drives as I slowly migrate to
Windows 7. Even in a simple network with Small Business Server 2003
(which maintains security etc.,) The ramifications of changing over
from one OS to another is a lot of work and testing to see if stuff
works. I've been able to get Outlook 2007 to work in WAN environment
knowing however that Outlook is a LAN area application. With BCM stuck
on top of Windows 7 even BCM can remotely connect to SQL database and
download across a small WAN connection and sync up our shared
database. Why on earth didn't MrSoftee get this stuff figured out
years ago? Oh gawd help us all!

JM
 
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