Vista and Outlook 2003 Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Vista and Outlook 2003 in the Windows Vista forums; I installed Vista and continuted to use my Office 2003. I was having problems with my wireless disconnecting from the WAN and internet without any notice. I kept having to ...

[jbbeaird]

I installed Vista and continuted to use my Office 2003.

I was having problems with my wireless disconnecting from the WAN and internet without any notice. I kept having to restart my machine throughout the day and evening. Some times, I could go for an hour or 2 before it disconnected.

After several days (I have ONLY had Vista for about 2 weeks now) I noticed that I was ONLY being disconnected if OUTLOOK was up and running. I would keep my OUTLOOK open all the time.

I worked and worked at it. I even left posts here and other places seeking answers for this problem. I thought it was a Lynksys connection problem and just couldn't figure this out.

After thinking about this ALL the time, I decided to buy OFFICE 2007. Since installing OFFICE 2007 and OUTLOOK, I no longer have this connection problem.

Since I live in the good ole USA, and have been brought up on consipricies etc... LOL . I'm wondering if this is one way that Microsoft uses to get us to buy more Microsoft "STUFF." This sure was an expensive fix.

[dazzlin]

Heh, I'm always up for a good conspiracy theory (looking around for my tinfoil hat right now), but my guess is that in your case it was an actual bug rather than a "feature". I probably would have tried a free email client first, just to see if that did the trick.

[Snuffy]

Originally Posted by jbbeaird

I installed Vista and continuted to use my Office 2003.

I was having problems with my wireless disconnecting from the WAN and internet without any notice. I kept having to restart my machine throughout the day and evening. Some times, I could go for an hour or 2 before it disconnected.

After several days (I have ONLY had Vista for about 2 weeks now) I noticed that I was ONLY being disconnected if OUTLOOK was up and running. I would keep my OUTLOOK open all the time.

I worked and worked at it. I even left posts here and other places seeking answers for this problem. I thought it was a Lynksys connection problem and just couldn't figure this out.

After thinking about this ALL the time, I decided to buy OFFICE 2007. Since installing OFFICE 2007 and OUTLOOK, I no longer have this connection problem.

Since I live in the good ole USA, and have been brought up on consipricies etc... LOL . I'm wondering if this is one way that Microsoft uses to get us to buy more Microsoft "STUFF." This sure was an expensive fix.

I'm on Vista Ultimate. and use OE... hate outlook with a passion. also use Office 2003 and Front Page.. NO PROBLEMS - SO by what ea of us RUN or RAN it is OUTLOOK not office 2003...