My apologies to anyone offended by my tone. It was more meant to be
tongue-in-cheek than it was to be accusatory, but it's a bit harder to
convey nuances of meaning through email.
I greatly appreciate the MBU team and all they have done for us, and all
they continue to do. I also appreciate the beta testers' many lost hours of
productivity and exposure to crashes and potential data loss in their
efforts to debug Entourage. Again, no offense was intended.
Best,
Bruce
on 10/22/00 5:04 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 10/22/00 1:19 PM, "Bruce Klutchko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Then why doesn't it say so? And why is there no reminder that OQV will
>> delete the "Change User" dialog? And why, if the Mac is the greatest
>> personal computer in the world, can't this be handled automatically? (Like,
>> "Would you like to shut down OQV so you can do this?)
>
>
> Bruce,
>
> As has been pointed out already about 17 times on this list, OQV 1.0 was
> only finished about 10 days ago. Entourage had to be sent for manufacture
> about 60 days ago. Any extra features or bug-fixes that were put into OQV
> between 60 and 10 days ago could not be noted in Entourage.
>
> MBU evidently thought, perhaps at a much later date than the original
> conception of Entourage, that there was a demand for some sort of min-app.
> A different sub-team developed it, and all the Office apps had to somehow
> accommodate to it as it going through development. The first we heard of it
> on the beta list, OQV beta 1, was when we were already up to about beta 11
> (out of 17) of Entourage. It was still freezing my computer up to a week
> before final release (October, that is). The MBU evidently wanted to get it
> out by official release release date. They're still working on it, believe
> me.
>
> I'm sure they're taking note of all bug reports, including yours, which must
> be very useful to them. And I'm sure they will release a version 1.1 at
> MacTopia when they're ready. In the meantime, if you feel its limitations
> are worse than not having it, just uninstall it and wait for the update,
> just as if they hadn't released it yet. But I'm sure that the feedback from
> people like you is really useful to them. Think of it as a public beta, if
> you wish, and you're a member of the public beta team. And this list is the
> public beta list, since the programme managers and some developers all read
> the list. Unlike Mac OS X, they didn't even charge extra for OQV 1.0.
>
> I personally would appreciate it, however, if you could find it in your
> heart to be a little less accusatory in your denunciations here.
--
Bruce Klutchko
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