I recently purchased a new Macbook Pro with Retina Display.  I installed my Outlook 2011 Home and Business edition on the computer and proceeded to add my account to Outlook.  Outlook will download nearly all ~45k messages, but when it gets to the last 5-10 messages the entire program freezes and I have to force quit. 

I've had zero luck trying to fix this and there is no available help from Apple because it's a Microsoft product and no available help from Microsoft without paying a huge fee.  Apple suggested using their Mac Mail and that's a very POOR substitute for Outlook.

Can ANYONE help?

Thanks!
I just bought Office for Mac 2011 Business Edition, and plan on using Outlook now instead of the Email App from Apple.  One thing I really liked about it is that it would fetch for new emails at start up, so I would know right away if there were emails waiting for me.  It seems to me that with outlook, I have to click on the icon on the task desktop for it to fetch for new emails.  Is there anyway around this?

Also, does anyone have any insight on when an update for the Retina Display MBP is set to come out for Office?  It seems that outlook has been updated, but word is still blurry.

Any insight will be much appreciated.


I have purchased Office:mac online of the Student edition, however, i realized that Outlook is not included, can I purchase Outlook separately or do I have purchase a brand new set of Business edition again, it is funny if i have to do so.

If it is the warranty issue, can I just pay the different between Student and Business edition to upgrade to Business edition?

Regards