Outlook 2007 has been plagued with slow performance since its launch. After the first few months of release they issued a patch which helped, but it was still substantially slower than Outlook 2003.

Microsoft has released Office 2007 Service Pack 2 which brings substantial performance gains to Outlook 2007, both for startup/shutdown and normal operation. I also haven’t needed a time-consuming mailbox repair process appear since installation.

You can download it here. Microsoft will make it part of automatic updates in the coming months.

Cablevision announced today a new speed tier for their cable modem service – 101 mbps down and 15 mbps up. To be launched on May 11^th to residential customers, this represents the fastest speed available on any major carrier – and at a reasonable $99/month.

Of course, such speeds are pretty unnecessary unless you’re linking sites via VPN or working with large, large files. Even high definition videoconferencing tops out at around 2 mbps, beneath the 30 mbps down, 5 up offering Cablevision has today.

My Optimum business rep has no announcement yet on a business offering, but I’m hoping it will land at about $120-$130 month.