From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Nathan Chere
Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:28 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE: unsubscribe
Or to put it another way, going back to Outlook 2003 is a purely positive
experience and I can’t think of a single thing where I’ve thought “gee I really
miss how they improved {0}”.
I suppose this one of those things where everyone’s use cases are different.
However I personally have found:
a) New Unicode PST/OST files that support >2GB files
b) Ability to connect to >1 Exchange server concurrently
c) Free/Busy information (for meeting scheduling)
d) OneNote integration
e) Auto-configuration
f) Single “To-Do” list of tasks and meetings
To be useful things that I’d miss if I had to go back to Outlook 2003. Item (b)
particularly
Ditto across the board for Office – some of the theming ribbon options are
handy in Word but that’s about it. Excel is a perfect example of how the ribbon
UI is a hammer and not all Office apps are nails – menu/toolbar worked much
better, addins/macros/etc were much simpler easier pre-Excel 2007, and I still
find it hard to comprehend the lack of core productivity improvements, like how
hack-y it feels to do relatively simple things like autocomplete dropdown lists
compared to OpenOffice. I guess they fixed some of the teething problems with
the ribbon UI between 2007 and 2010?
Again, I suppose it depends on your use cases. But I think in almost any area
there are improvements – take Reviewing for example – Compare Versions to
produce marked up documents, Ability to reply in-line to comments etc. are all
great tools.
Cheers
Ken
