William, How does MSFT determine what percentage of users make use of a particular feature? Please explain to me why anyone would want to waste time and workflow having to logout and back in again with a different account when they can simply switch identities? My wife and I use this feature constantly.
Seems to me that if users make use of a feature (whether it's used for the reason the developer intended or not), then it would be beyond foolish to remove said feature. And with regards to "weaning"; the only thing your attitude is weaning me off of is anything sold by MSFT. Mark On Oct 4, 2010, at 11:30 PM, William Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/4/10 9:59 PM, "William Lane" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Who on earth would spend the time to engineer a 'feature' into software, >> then intentionally hide the feature in order that folks can't use it?!?!?! > > This feature wasn¹t certainly introduced with Outlook and I don¹t think it > was even introduced in Entourage. IIRC, it was at least in Outlook > Express. Diane may have better memory than I do. > > The concept of ³identities² is an old feature for an old problem that is > gone now and Microsoft doesn¹t want to support it anymore. It¹s been > replaced with Mac OS X user accounts. They realize, however, that some > folks just won¹t let it go. Taking it from a prominent position in the > menus to an obscure position in the Database Utility is a means of weaning > folks off its use before removing it altogether. It¹s better than removing > it now and giving no options for folks to migrate from Entourage to > Outlook. > > If you think about it, very few applications are as old as the ones in > Office and few developers ever have to consider removing old features > because they¹re no longer needed. This is one of those situations. Again, > identities were *not* developed as a solution for archiving but for > allowing multiple users to use mail under one computer account. > > -- > > William Smith > > > -- > YouTalk mailing list > List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html > List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] > To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
