Small Business Management Edition 2006, BCM new version?

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Does the SBME 2006 have an new and improved BCM version? And secondly, does
it have a new updated version of Outlook?
 
Red Dog said:
Does the SBME 2006 have an new and improved BCM version? And secondly, does
it have a new updated version of Outlook?

Ok, did a little more digging at MS site. I see that the BCM is 'update',...does anyone know what that means? Says it will sync BCM with PDA.
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Red Dog,

SBME 2006 is a 2 Disk set re-packaged release that combines the following
elements:

Disk 1>Office 2003 Professional Edition-Access '03, Publisher '03, Word '03,
Excel '03, Outlook '03, Powerpoint '03. (All Office 11 components)

Disk 2>Small Business Accounting 2006, Business Contact Manager Update for
Outlook '03.

The main reason for this early edition "hybrid" release seems to have been to
get the SBA piece of the puzzle out into current users hands ASAP as a means
to promote it's adoption and integration with the rest of Office. For a
while there was even a link to a Microsoft promo site that provide current
licensees to get a free copy of SBME 2006. I am not sure if that is still
around or not.

My speculation is that when the next version of Office (v 12) is released
later this summer it will likely be called Office 2006. The SBME of this
will likely be upgraded with the newer components and probably re-named SBME
2007 due to its new components now being Office v12 vs. v11. This is all
just an assumed guess on my part but over time one can eventually learn how
to fairly accurately intuit the Microsoft marketing mindset.

-THP
 
Correction to a typo on my previous post. My speculation is that the entire
next v12 Office release will be marketed as Office 2007 (not 2006) regardless
of which various edition options there will be. Again, this is all just my
own personal speculation.

Does anyone else more informed have precise details that are confirmed yet?
If so, please post.

-THP
 
Red Dog,

Just to be completely clear about my first post response above. Disc 2 of
the SBME 2006 contains Business Contact Manager Update for Microsoft Office
Outlook 2003. This "update" version of BCM is the same as what is referred
to on this newsgroup as BCM v.2. BCM v.2 was released in the summer of '05.
The Outlook '03 component of SBME 2006 is virtually the same as it has been
for 3 years.

Perhaps I don't need to restate this but I will anyway. Outlook '03 and
Business Contact Manager Update for Outlook '03 are 2 separate applications.
Business Contact Manager Update of course is the MSDE db add-in option for
the native Outlook '03 application. Sometimes the wording of all this is not
fully clear to new users.

-THP
 
Tim P.

Thanks for your comments. You have told me what I was hoping NOT to
hear,...it is all 2003 version with their new accounting software added. I
currently use BCM v.2 and it is very buggy (I've heard it is known and
probably won't change,...as MS puts their $ into their new corp. CRM
software. It leaves us 'small' folks out in the lurch,...I would like to
keep using BCM, but get so frustrated with it over and over again. But,
still using it, unless I find THE answer.

Do you know how I can get my corp. laptop to run BCM solely from my 1g
thumbdrive? The data and contact info needs to stay off the laptop. Is
there a way to change the settings so that Outlook targets and pulls from the
BCM file? That would make me VERY happy. I am trying out Goldmine and have
it set up completely on the thumbdrive,....but I realize Outlook would be a
different animal and at best might allow me to run it and have the BCM on the
thumbdrive.
 
I don't have an answer to your thumb drive question but I do agree that most
of Microsoft's eggs are in the full CRM basket with BCM regrettably left
behind as the seemingly neglected stepchild. I have not personally found BCM
v.2 to be buggy at all. It has performed well for me and does exactly what
it is intended to do very well. By main rant (they are actually numerous if
you visit this newsgroup very often) is that BCM has not yet been intended by
design to do as much very flexibly outside of the limitations imposed by its
"one-size-fits-all" functionality. I am amazed by such an apparent
disconnect from most real world users needs. I am among a group of users who
can live with these limitations for the time being mainly because I wish to
remain Office-Centric with my SW usage. Eventhough there are better contact
management applications currently available they are separate from Office.
The promise of robust and seamless functionality within the Office System of
software components remains in large measure unrealized and I patiently hope
for improvement.

-THP
 
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