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Peter Kalmström

Skype Toolbar for Outlook updated!

By My status Peter Kalmström on December 20, 2007 in .

I am very happy to finally announce that the Skype Toolbar for Outlook has been updated.
The most important changes are:

  • Support for Outlook 2007 - when you open an email or a contact item you will get a Skype task pane to the right allowing you to initiate communication via Skype very swiftly.
  • Much faster startup performance (except the first time you log into a profile) - the caching is now done in a much better way
  • When reading email only the sender of the email is analyzed. Previously up to 10 other recipients were also analyzed. This also increases performance a lot.
  • Selecting appointments are no longer supported - we are trying to make the product simpler and this feature was cut
  • On demand analyzing of other recipients. When you create a conference, multichat etc from an email the other recipients (apart from the sender) is analyzed when needed, not in advance.
To make the most of your use of the Outlook Toolbar we have made a 17 minutes long video demonstration of the toolbar in action.
Here is the link to that!
View the screencast!
Then, of course, I urge you to download and try it for yourself! Go to the download page

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I like the new (1.1.0.37) version of the Skype Toolbar for Outlook. It is a great productivity tool. Any serious (or even casual) user of Skype and Outlook should at least try it.

For future development, I think the Toolbar's UI that pushes itself into opened contacts and e-mails is a bit large. It would be nice if there was a compact setting and if you could choose which components (Skype addresses, phone numbers, SMS, chat, etc.) it mines for and pushes at the user.

jon.lieberman | Friday, Dec 21

I had the old version and think it was much better overall. Although I like some of the new features, I have noticed the following problems (and it has only been installed for a few hours):

1. Performance is MUCH worse than before. The system hangs when starting calls and sometimes the calls don't work at all.
2. The new UI is way too big. I liked that is was a small window at the top that I could access as needed, but didn't intrude on what I was doing.

I will probably find more, but these are a MAJOR issue and I wish I could reinstall the old one, but alas I no longer have the installation file. I guess I will learn for future releases to keep the old file in case the "upgrade" is really a step backwards.

davsha77 | Monday, Jan 21

I have a question: Does it still work with Outlook 2003 and if so, are there any glitches with the old version of MS Office Outlook?

Thanx.
mafrica-pilot

mafrica-pilot | Friday, Feb 8

there seems to be a conflict with this tool bar and vista or this tool bar and Outlook with business contact manager

robert_miller_esq | Monday, Feb 11

I use the new skype tool bar for couple of days. There are some two problems:
(1) "Simplified Chinese" language is displayed instead of "Traditional Chinese" or "English". I come from Taiwan, it should display tranditional Chinese language.
(2) The Outlook launch speed is very slow after installing the tool bar. It takes 3 to 5 seconds for Outlook to be ready for use.

I like the tool bar very much. It would be much better if these problems can be solved ASAP.

rcfocus | Thursday, Mar 20

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israelxxx972 | Friday, Apr 25

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