Hi Barry, Perceived 'intent' was based on William's presentation of the facts before I realized that he isn't a MSFT employee. But regardless, clearly the effect of MSFT's removal of various Entourage features that I cared about will result in my moving to Apple Mail. That the decision was made to spend their limited time/manpower/budget on making features less convenient could've been better spent on completing sync services across the board. And no; I won't buy into Outlook now in hope that my desired features will be added or restored later.
Mark On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:11 AM, Barry Wainwright <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you are mistaking 'effect' for 'intent'. > > They didn't deliberately make it more inconvenient, they simply moved it out > of the main body of the programme into the database utility (which is the app > that does the donkey work anyway). > > This will have the _effect_ of reducing the risk of introducing bugs (without > a user interface, the Database Utility app is much simpler), making it easier > to test and a little more difficult to find. > > That last bit is the effect of the move - I'm sure it was not the intent of > the move > > -- > From the iPad of Barry Wainwright > > > On 5 Oct 2010, at 03:54, Mark Falchook <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I find it telling that Microsoft actually went to the trouble and expense to >> intentionally make ANY feature inconvenient to use. Gotta love that design >> philosophy. If it's Redmond's intention to alienate Mac users, they're doing >> a helluva job. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:17 PM, William Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 10/4/10 6:58 PM, "Dick Kriss" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Earlier you asked me if I was impressed with the new Move item on the >>>> ribbon. When I was taking the test drive, I tried to save a message to >>>> the desktop. The File menu and Save As did not work so I then tried the >>>> new Move options and could no figure out the nonstandard file system. I >>>> expected it to open to a Finder interface and encounter a file system I >>>> have never seen before that was not integrated with the OS X Finder. The >>>> bottom line is I was not impressed with the new Move. >>> >>> You¹ve misunderstood the intention of the Move feature. It¹s meant for >>> moving messages between folders within Outlook. To file an open message >>> you just click the Move menu button and select Choose FolderŠ In the next >>> window you simply begin typing the name of the folder and all available >>> matches are provided. Once you¹ve selected a folder then that folder is >>> placed at the top of a recently used list for quicker access. >>> >>>> I look forward to the new trial to find where they hid the Switch >>>> Identity >>>> Hopefully it is not history. >>> >>> Consider it history. >>> >>> The original Switch Identity feature was envisioned by Microsoft as a >>> solution to the problem of having just one Mac user account that must be >>> shared by many users. This is from the classic Mac OS days. With the >>> introduction of Mac OS X and its multiple user accounts, the need for this >>> feature *as it was envisioned* in Entourage and Outlook is gone. >>> >>> Folks have also used this feature as an archiving mechanism, which >>> Microsoft wasn¹t expecting. Although Microsoft hasn¹t provided a very good >>> archiving solution with either Entourage or Outlook, they certainly don¹t >>> want to support using Switch Identity as a solution. >>> >>> It¹s buried in Outlook to make it less convenient to use. We can probably >>> expect it to be gone in the next major version. We¹ll need to spend the >>> time between now and then to find a different solution for archiving. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> 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 > > > -- > 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
