> I am starting to dislike the general attitude of 'we know best' that seems to
> permeate software development in some areas..
Speaking as a software developer, allow me to say that we really do know
best.
It's just that *our* best isn't necessarily *your* best.
The favorite part of my job is when, amidst much scribbling on white boards
and waving of hands, I explain what I want to do and a half-dozen people
whom I respect enough to have on my development team exclaim "That's the way
that should be done!".
I'm sure that the Microsoft people feel much the same way. And if you
walked into their offices and showed them "a better way" to do something,
it's a near certainty that the program will evolve in that direction.
Sometimes surprisingly quickly.
The problem is that an application of the complexity of Entourage involves
thousands of such decisions. And not every decision can be blessed with
exceptional inspiration. Sometimes, in the absence of such inspiration, you
choose between the interface design that seems to suck the least.
Let me also say that just about every nanny-like feature in the software
came into being because of hard experience and/or user outrage.
For example, very, very few users will want to open 150 messages at a time.
And it drives me crazy when I miss and inadvertently "Redirect" a ton of
messages to which I intended to "Apply Rules"... (by the by, if I've a
multiple selection and I redirect, I almost certainly want to redirect all
of the messages to the same recipient...and I almost certainly don't want to
address each message individually...or maybe that's just me).
mikel
PS: You'll probably find that Entourage can open 150 messages much better if
they're not HTML messages. The IE control, that Entourage uses to display
HTML messages, is hideously bad with regards to memory consumption.
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