On 6/13/2003 2:50 PM, Scott Haneda deftly typed out: > First off, I hear IE is dead, is the Office line going to continue, namely > Entourage?
Why would you leap to the conclusion that since IE is no longer going to be developed that Office must be next? The MacBU is a small development team and they have to try and focus their attention on the apps that will bring them the most return on their coding investment. IE is free and brings them no revenue for the effort put into its development. Why continue to do so when there are alternatives that are, in some cases, better than their own browser? It would literally be a money-losing investment for them. Besides, Microsoft in its entirety is abandoning stand-alone versions of IE. Since the MacBU can't integrate IE into the Mac OS, why continue to develop something that no longer fits into the company's goals? I'm sure IE will continue to live on in the MSN client, but then it will become software that will bring in income. > My current list of bugs, and hopefully you all can tell me how to deal with > them. These aren't bugs, by the way (except for the first one). > 1) First priority is that Entourage will overwrite your IE preferences, this > is horrible, when can we expect a fix on this, it has been publicly > discussed for a long time now. Aw, come on... This isn't "horrible." How often do you have to change your IE prefs? Just quit both apps, launch IE, set prefs, quit IE. Or, better yet, start using another browser... > 2) I get a lot of email, in the morning, when I check email, Entourage must > fetch all my email before the app is responsive enough to use, in OS 9 I was > able to use the app just fine, even as thousands of emails were pouring in. I'm not terribly enthused about Entourage's responsiveness either, but I consider it usable (Even when downloading a couple hundred messages). I just wish it could sync offline actions (as well as attachment encoding) in the background. > 3) Say you have a folder of unread mail, in OS 9 Entourage, I could select > one of them, and it would go unbold, and I could press the up arrow, and > scroll past them, and they would all be marked as "Read", now the program > can not keep up with this, and you have to very slowly select one, wait, > move on to the next, rinse, and repeat. Have you tried setting: Entourage -> Mail & News Preferences... -> Read -> Mark message as read after displaying for n seconds To "0"? Does that help? > 4) deleting messages takes 2 clicks after the first message is deleted. > Given a set of messages in a folder, click on one, click the delete icon, > and it will be deleted, and the next message rolls into selected place, > click the delete/trach icon, and it depresses, like it is trying to delete, > but no message is deleted, you have to click again, and you have to do this > for the rest of the messages you want to delete. I haven't noticed this behavior. But then again, if I'm going to be deleting messages in succession, I generally select multiple messages and press the delete button once (works much faster this way). > 5) Just my opinion on this one, but the "On My Computer", can there be a > pref to make that go away, I need the space, and it serves me no purpose. Can't be done away with entirely, but you can click the disclosure triangle next to it and collapse it to just "On My Computer". It doesn't really take up enough room to gripe about then, IMHO. > 6) Performance in general compared to OS 9 has a lot to be desired. I agree with you here, but that is true of pretty much all apps in X. It's the pros/cons of multitasking. I'm sure the current performance of Entourage could be improved, though. > 7) Command-M your main window, and you have no way to get it back out of the > dock other than clicking on it in the doc, I would think that if I move a > application that can only have one window to the dock, bringing the > application back to the foreground should bring its window back as well. Switch to Entourage and Cmd-1 to bring the "Mail" window back out of the Dock. > When might we see a update, and is there some sort of beta teststers team, > or should I be worried and go find a new email program, since this one is > going to be EOL'd soon as well? The MacBU has promised an update to Entourage this summer which will bring Exchange compatibility to Entourage (and probably a bug fix or two). But if you have such little confidence in the software's development, then maybe you might be better served with another email client. -Remo Del Bello -- "A shimmering purple cloud descended over America in 1975, and then, bang, disco happened. Who's to say that a similar mass madness couldn't make .NET the status quo?" - Andy Ihnatko -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
