Le dimanche 09 octobre 2005 à 12:04 -0500, Randomthots a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le dimanche 09 octobre 2005 à 04:24 -0500, Randomthots a écrit : > > > >> But the rest of the world more or less > >>considers MS to *be* the standard. > > > > > > The rest of the world considers whatever their company chose at the > > standard, be it Notes, Outlook, Thunderbird or whatever obscure mailer > > which salespeople happen to know the Boss wife. > > > > And all these have widely different UIs (esp Notes) > > > > MS didn't manage to get the same grip on this market than on the office > > suite one - there's no need to ape them blindly. > > > > I'm not talking about "apeing them blindly". Nor would I suggest copying > Notes, either. But if you look at all Outlook and Evolution (I have no > experience with Notes) there are some similarities to the UI paradigm.
Not surprisingly since evo is an outlook clone (purposeful decision) However the fact that Notes owns a huge part of the entreprise mailer market, and has a very different UI paradigm, shows there are *NO* mailer standard as you wrote. In fact evo is starting to diverge, since some of the original cloning was not the smartest thing to do in UI terms. -- Nicolas Mailhot