Such "why?" questions are largely rhetorical unless you can corner a Microsoft developer in an unusually talkative mood. This being a peer-to-peer forum, you won't find them here. It's not hard to guess, though, that multiple-contact vCard support simply wasn't high enough on the to-do list to get the resources this time around, given all the other design priorities.

Once people see how well multi-event iCalendar support works in OL2007, I imagine they'll be asking loudly for the same capability for contacts.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
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"Mike" wrote in message ...
Outlook 2007 (like previous versions of Outlook) still fails to properly
implement the vCard standard. In a VCF file with mulitple records, Outlook
only imports the first one; even Outlook Express will import this kind of
VCF file correctly. On the flip side Outlook cannot properly create VCF
files from mulitple contacts; yes, there is the kludge to foward an an email
with multiple contacts, but this does not create a single VCF file, and
requires numerous extra steps (and takes a LONG time for a large list). I
know there are tools to 'fix' this, but is there a reason Outlook still
fails to implement this standard correctly?

Mike