[mso] Re: My Outlook 2003 nits
- From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:59:43 -0600
>It would mean MS is dumbing down their software instead of finding
solutions to accommodate more people.
That's a proven and often used technique...and Microsoft has used it many
times before. In fact, the creation of Windows is all about reducing the
amount of knowledge you *have* have to use the system and reduces the old
question of "where are my files?" The same is true for programming in this
environment. With the advent of Windows, developers no longer had to know
both the hardware and sofware interrupt schema, they no longer had to
develop their own video and printer drivers (which were always buggy as
hell anyway), and they all could use a standardized API to the system
because the required knowledge threshold is so much lower.
The method used is called abstraction. Removal of a feature which appears
to be data loss makes for bad news. So, unless they can come up with a way
to abstract the behavior and make it more easily understood, it's one that
likely will not reappear.
Greg
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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Peter Strisik
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:45 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: My Outlook 2003 nits
Thanks Dian.
This is the one that burns me the most:
3) My email views typically use an "unread" filter. In XP, I could click
on the "mark as read" icon and have a msg or group disappear from view.
Now it only is marked as read and remains visible until I leave and return
to the folder. This makes my reading routine more cumbersome.
Diane P in the outlook group suggested that MS removed this action because
some users got confused! If this is true, it's depressing. It would mean
MS is dumbing down their software instead of finding solutions to
accommodate more people.
Another "change" that I've discovered is the inability to drag a message
in the message list pane and drop it on another message to change the
subject line to match the latter messages. Now it plain doesn't happen.
Sigh.....
......Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dian Chapman
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:55 pm
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: My Outlook 2003 nits
Noted...I'll pass your suggestions on to the Office team. You're not the
only one who has many of these suggestions.
Dian D. Chapman
Technical Consultant,
Microsoft MVP & Instructor
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Peter Strisik
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:07 AM
To: outlook-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] My Outlook 2003 nits
There is much to like added to Outlook 11. However, I am dismayed at what
was changed or removed.
It seems like MS thought the new viewer pane was the cat's meow. If on
the right, it seems space is not an issue within the pane. However, it is
impractical to keep the pane on the right if you also like to have the
folder tree and message list panes open unless you have one of those wide
screen monitors. So back to the bottom right my viewer pane goes with
overall loss of space as described below.
1) The header information in the preview pane needs to be customizable,
particularly as to type size. It takes up much more space than it used
to.
2) When messages are grouped, the group header line is much thicker than
it used to be again taking more space than is necessary.
3) My email views typically use an "unread" filter. In XP, I could click
on the "mark as read" icon and have a msg or group disappear from view.
Now it only is marked as read and remains visible until I leave and return
to the folder. This makes my reading routine more cumbersome.
4) MS added useful info to the status bar when send/receiving, but took
away useful info from the Send/Receive Progress box.
5) I wish there was more ease of use added to views management.
Particularly, the ability to modify a view and apply the changes to every
folder currently using that view.
My .02
.....Peter
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