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charlieg wrote: For some company that CONSTANTLY elephants with user interfaces for "improvement",
My interpretation is that marketing and not user usability is more likely the driving factor for that.
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jschell wrote: My interpretation is that marketing and not user usability is more likely the driving factor for that.
That explains it. In my experience, Marketing never improves anything. All they are good for is comparing feature lists, and insisting that we implement all features present in competitors' products, no matter how useless they may be.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I don't consider it that harshly. What users want (versus need) is often a driving factor in initial sales and that pays the bills. So marketing and sales are needed for that.
But other than that Word is the driving standard at this time. So it is unlikely to be a comparison so much as they need to come up with something new just to encourage people to buy a newer version. That is true in other industries like cars.
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Last week I created an email. Hit 'send.' That was followed by a long, awkward pause. Then the email disappeared, so I assumed it was sent.
Found out that our ISP had dropped out for a bit, coinciding with the not-so-pregnant pause. Email was gone - not in sent folder, nor on the server as sent (IMAP copy-to rule). Not in drafts, nor anywhere else I looked.
This is an 2010 Outlook installation, so can't be blamed on newest team members, but still.... 
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David O'Neil wrote: Email was gone - not in sent folder, nor on the server as sent (IMAP copy-to rule). Not in drafts, nor anywhere else I looked.
If this were in a work environment, I would get rid of any program that "processed" data by losing it. You can't afford to have data going missing without some indication that something went wrong.
(For home use, that would depend on the utility of the program and the frequency of "glitches" of this sort.)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I agree with you. That fact that it happened with Outlook really surprised me, because even the 2010 version has to have had a lot of the bugs worked out of it. But there are things in Outlook I need that I haven't seen in Mozilla, and I don't have the bucks to investigate other programs.
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When you partake of the MS world, you play by their rules:
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't get out of the game.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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theoldfool wrote: 1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't get out of the game.
Every major philosophical idea violates one of these rules:
Capitalism is based on the idea that you can win.
Socialism is based on the idea that you can break even.
Mysticism is based on the idea that you can quit the game.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Not to worry, I just got this in an email:
Quote: Microsoft is soon coming out with a new Outlook client - One Outlook - which will eventually replace your familiar Outlook clients. Are you and your organization ready for a new Outlook?
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Procedure to make a baby? (9)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Reproduce
Unbelievable... I got this in 10 seconds! 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Congratulations - you are up tomorrow!
Care to explain for the others?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The definition of "Reproduce" is "to make a baby"... not sure how else to explain..? 
I thought since I got this as soon as I read it, it would be as obvious to everyone else
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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And REPRODUCE is an anagram of PROCEDURE
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yes, of course, that too 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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All this time I thought he was a theoretical physicist.
*hides*
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I heard he hated his military uncle: General Relativity.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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What's the difference between juvenile humor and Dad jokes? Dad jokes are full groan!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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All this time i thought he was a complex person... 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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He was actually a Quaternion - 4-dimensional. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The Lounge
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That joke must have come from Einstein county, where everyone is a relative.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I misread "Einstein" as "Epstein" and spend good one minute trying to figure out the joke. 
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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