Wish i’d kept the beta!

I posted a little while back about the very cool Outlook Connector that lets you access a hotmail account within Outlook

All in all i’ve been pretty pleased with it. I read somewhere recently it was no longer a beta so planned to upgrade to the “proper” version

A couple of days ago i opened Outlook and was prompted to upgrade the outlook connector. So i allowed the installer to do it’s thing but since then the connector hasn’t worked at all and from the comments on the Outlook team blog i’m not alone

The error i initally had told me it was unable to sign in and in the log it simply said “Network operation failed”

I thought it wouldn’t hurt to remove the account from Outlook and re-add it. Still doesn’t work but now i’m getting an extra message

A pop-up told me that the feature was only available to subscribers (and even asked me if i’d like to subscribe now) and the log pretty much says the same thing

Outlook Connector Version 12.0.4518.1063

Account: ******YEAH RIGHT!!**************

Signed in successfully at 28/09/2007 14:15:18                                                                          

Mail: Error at 14:16.                                                                                                 Â
Calendar: Error at 14:15.                                                                                             Â
Contacts: Last successfully refreshed at 14:16.                                                                        

Errors :

Time: 28/09/2007 14:15:21
Error in Mail
Network operation failed
Time: 28/09/2007 14:15:23
Error in Mail
Outlook Connector is available only to subscribers.
Time: 28/09/2007 14:15:24
Error in Calendar
Outlook Connector is available only to subscribers.
Time: 28/09/2007 14:15:45
Error in Mail
Outlook Connector is available only to subscribers.
Time: 28/09/2007 14:15:49
Error in Mail
Outlook Connector is available only to subscribers.
Time: 28/09/2007 14:16:03
Error in Mail
Outlook Connector is available only to subscribers

I hate bitching about software that has been given to me for free but it is a little frustrating when the beta worked without issue

I’ll keep playing with it but i think i’ll be waiting for a fix from the Outlook connector guys