So... I have recently upgraded to Office 2010. I must say it s pretty cool. At least Outlook is... everything else feels much like Office 2007 with a cooler skin. If you are an Outlook user, I highly recommend the Social Connector Add-Ins. These do a great job of aggregating all of the social info out there on your contacts. I havent dove yet into the web integration, but I've run into two good bugs worth mentioning.

First, if you have Visual Studio 2008 installed, you may run into a situation where you can no longer cut and paste in the HTML designer, and the entire program essentially locks up. This problem appears to be related to a web authoring file that does not get properly updated by the Office 2010 installer. To fix this, you need to simply run a repair on the “Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component” that is part of Office 2007. You can find this file at C:\Program Files(x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Setup.exe if you are running 32bit, or C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Setup.exe if you are running 64bit. Here is a post from Rinat Abdullin that helped me to solve this problem. This was a lifesaver!

Second, I am a Google Calendar Sync user. I use this tool to sync my Outlook Calendars with my Google Calendar on my desktop and my phone. Needless to say, I'm lost without this functionality. Once I installed 2010, I noticed that the Sync tool from Google said that it did not support this version of Office. I went to the Google home for the sync tool and found 4 pages of people complaining about this very issue and trying to get Google to add some support. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be listening... but I found some relief! Basically, what you have to do is download a Hex Editor and change the version values of the Outlook 2010 executable from 14.0.0 to 12.0.0. Sounds creepy, but it works like a charm! Here is a post on addictivetips.com that has a cool hack to get this working.

If you find yourself having these same problems, hopefully this will help. Just trying to do my part and be a good netizen.