Our other people also get a tremendous number of email messages each day and can't justify losing time to this new release.

We do, of course, have Office 2007 on our test machines and will continue to document and test Outlook 2007. Hopefully, after the first service pack, this will all get better and we'll go ahead and upgrade and feel comfortable recommending you do as well. In the meantime, our recommendation is this: if you don't need to upgrade right away, give it some time. See if the performance problems improve before you open yourself to a host of possible problems.

For more than 20 years, David Gewirtz, the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise, has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com.