I can't quite shake the feeling that OL2007 is a minimalist rehash of
what has gone before.

To me I'd expect these as absolute minimums in a 2007 email program:
- can handle multiple email addresses easily-peasily (eg without crashing)
- can handle these with dedicated folders in order to keep mail separate
and distinct rather than relying on a bundle if not quite so effective
Rules to do so
- can handle chat rooms, forums and news groups equally easily-peasily

- Calendar handling should make it easy to identify duplication should
any arise (especially given that phome, PDA, laptop, workstation, server
may have the same (mostly) appointments. Identifying dupes easily
whould be a non-demanding operation

- orchestrating input/output, import/export from a variety of media
should also have a pleasant and unambiguous workflow


Bob Buckland ?:-) wrote:
Hi CJSNet,

Be sure to send your Office 2007 suggestions, comments and feedback on what you do like or what you find difficult to use directly
to the MS Office Product team by using the 2007 feedback tool from the link below.

The tool allows you to send screenshots and descriptions. Be sure to include information on what having a changed feature would
enable you to do better, faster, easier and if it's something you'd use daily, once in awhile, etc.

==============
"CJSnet" wrote in message ...
"William Lefkovics [MVP]"
wrote in message ...
You are kidding, right?

No, because the two feature suggestions I made are very good ones.

You do make a couple of good feature suggestions

Thanks, that's all I was trying to do. Next step is to get MS to recognise
them.

To me I'd expect these as absolute minimums in a 2007 email program:
- can handle multiple email addresses easily-peasily (eg without crashing)
Sure it can. It's a beta version though so crashes are to be expected.

- can handle these with dedicated folders in order to keep mail separate
and distinct rather than relying on a bundle if not quite so effective
Rules to do so
Rules generally work

- can handle chat rooms, forums and news groups equally easily-peasily
Outlook is targeted at business customers with Exchange server. No need
for chat rooms, forums and news groups for those, especially because you
can get a lot of that functionality with other MS products that
integrate into Outlook, but with strict corporate control.

- Calendar handling should make it easy to identify duplication should
any arise (especially given that phome, PDA, laptop, workstation, server
may have the same (mostly) appointments. Identifying dupes easily
whould be a non-demanding operation
Use the send a smile tool to submit this as suggestion.

- orchestrating input/output, import/export from a variety of media
should also have a pleasant and unambiguous workflow
Like what media?


Patrick Schmid
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http://pschmid.net



Bob Buckland ?:-) wrote:
Hi CJSNet,

Be sure to send your Office 2007 suggestions, comments and feedback on what you do like or what you find difficult to use directly
to the MS Office Product team by using the 2007 feedback tool from the link below.

The tool allows you to send screenshots and descriptions. Be sure to include information on what having a changed feature would
enable you to do better, faster, easier and if it's something you'd use daily, once in awhile, etc.

==============
"CJSnet" wrote in message ...
"William Lefkovics [MVP]"
wrote in message ...
You are kidding, right?

No, because the two feature suggestions I made are very good ones.

You do make a couple of good feature suggestions

Thanks, that's all I was trying to do. Next step is to get MS to recognise
them.

"deebs" wrote in message
...
I can't quite shake the feeling that OL2007 is a minimalist rehash of what
has gone before.

Sorry to say I agree.

To me I'd expect these as absolute minimums in a 2007 email program:
....
- can handle these with dedicated folders in order to keep mail separate
and distinct rather than relying on a bundle if not quite so effective
Rules to do so

Hear hear!

Bob Buckland ?:-) wrote:
Hi CJSNet,

Be sure to send your Office 2007 suggestions, comments and feedback on
what you do like or what you find difficult to use directly
to the MS Office Product team by using the 2007 feedback tool from the
link below.

The tool allows you to send screenshots and descriptions. Be sure to
include information on what having a changed feature would
enable you to do better, faster, easier and if it's something you'd use
daily, once in awhile, etc.

==============
"CJSnet" wrote in message
...
"William Lefkovics [MVP]"
wrote in message
...
You are kidding, right?

No, because the two feature suggestions I made are very good ones.

You do make a couple of good feature suggestions

Thanks, that's all I was trying to do. Next step is to get MS to
recognise
them.

deebs wrote:

To me I'd expect these as absolute minimums in a 2007 email program:
- can handle multiple email addresses easily-peasily (eg without
crashing)

Once OL 2007 is in production release it will be at least as reliable as
priot Outlooks. My Outlook installations handle four or five separate
accounts with never a crash.

- can handle these with dedicated folders in order to keep mail
separate and distinct rather than relying on a bundle if not quite so
effective Rules to do so

Rules are quite effective.

- can handle chat rooms, forums and news groups equally easily-peasily

Not in a business environment. This is a bad idea. Outlook is already a
large program. Let's not introduce additional areas where things can go
wrong.

- Calendar handling should make it easy to identify duplication should
any arise (especially given that phome, PDA, laptop, workstation,
server may have the same (mostly) appointments. Identifying dupes
easily whould be a non-demanding operation

I get a duplicate in my calendar maybe once or twice a year, despite syncing
with multiple devices. When I do, it's nearly trivial to correct the
problem.

- orchestrating input/output, import/export from a variety of media
should also have a pleasant and unambiguous workflow

Unless absolutely necessary, import and export should be avoided.
--
Brian Tillman