OK, I've been a little Microsoft and product-heavy in the posts lately. However, I firmly believe that the launches of Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 represent an inflection point with respect to corporate technology investment, and perhaps more broadly with respect to information worker productivity.
I've run Office 2007 since Beta 2 became available in June of 2006, and presented Office 2007 in several "Sneak Peek" events around the metro Boston area over the past several months. Today, I finally installed the first production release to my main computer, along with IE7 (finally!) and a new Outlook client for MSCRM. Given other trials and tribulations I've had with Vista and Office 2007, I was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly it went.
The biggest gating factor for me was that I needed the new Outlook client for Microsoft CRM in order to be productive. Since implementing MSCRM about 6 months ago, I've gotten very used to using CRM from within Outlook (after some challenges with the web client), and I've felt the pain of not having a smoothly-working, well-integrated CRM-to-Outlook integration, so I definitely had to wait until after the late December release of this new CRM integration. I just recently got time to do my testing, and found it to work as expected, so I'm off and running with the new apps!
Now I can use Groove!
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