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Old June 24th 06, 02:21 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.outlook.general
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Default Why isn't OL2007 e-mail more like Google Mail?

I had a look at a friend's Google Mail Inbox the other day, and it's really
impressive.

E-mails are automatically grouped by conversation. Better still, when you
read one message, the others in the thread appear as popup tabs above and
below it, which you can enlarge or reduce with one click. It's truly cool.

(Outlook can't do this unless you create a special search folder, and then
that doesn't work very well.)

Then Google Mail automatically removes the rest of the thread which you
don't want cluttering the window and replaces it with 'Show quoted text',
just like Google Groups. Again truly cool.

(Outlook does nothing like this, and you have sometimes 100s of lines of
text below getting in the way. It doesn't even let you specify a maximum
number of lines to truncate the attached thread to when replying. Even
Windows Mobile lets you do that.)

I'm just surprised Outlook 2007 beta 2 doesn't offer more improvements by
way of e-mail. Surely we won't have to wait for Outlook 2011 before we seek
this? By then it'll be old news and everyone will be using Google Mail
instead! Not good for MS so hopefully they read this or someone can post
this in the beta group.

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