And since I haven't bagged on Microsoft in awhile...

I have been having to do a lot with Outlook and Exchange at work recently (Ug, I know). Anyways, I had to laugh out loud the other day, when Outlook barfed this error message up at me:

One more reason why Outlook is stupid
The message reads: "You cannot add a Microsoft Exchange account to this profile while Outlook is running. Please exit Outlook and use the Mail icon in the Control Panel to add a Microsoft Exchange account."

But I got to this dialog box from within Outlook! So, I can add POP and IMAP servers from within Outlook, but not Exchange? Why even give me the option to do so if it doesn't work in the first place? It's not like the Outlook team didn't know about this deficiency -- I mean, they went though all of the trouble to to put in this dialog box telling me exactly what to do.

Amazing!

-Andy.

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