Comments on: Microsoft Office Outlook 2010’s new meeting request view

By: Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:43:49 +0000

Tim, Thanks for the insight on Outlook 2010. I’m curious whether MS has taken any cues from Xobni, specifically the integration with social networks, and the displaying of contact info, previous e-mails, attachments, etc. for the sender whose message is currently selected.

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By: Nasssar Ali

Nasssar Ali — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:39:03 +0000

ok guys i need help i cant delete the messages in my inbox when i press the delete key all i get is a line across my msg i have right clicked on msge mostly done averything i think off

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:55:21 +0000

@Keith – could you direct me to the advice from the email standards committee?

@David – I don’t think it’s going to be that clever, but I’ll dedicate another blog post to the conversation view at some point and make sure I cover its threading abilities.

By: David Wright

David Wright — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:57:12 +0000

Does the conversation view actually thread the conversation properly? I’ve not been able to get a clear answer on it so far.

Does it properly thread, so you can see which reply goes with which e-mail and when a conversation branches, the sub-threads of the conversation are correctly linked to each other, or does it just stuff the whole conversation under a single heading?

This is one of the things I loved with the old mail clients (KMail, NacCIS etc.), which were sorely missing from Outlook, Thunderbird and Apple Mail.

By: Keith Emmerson

Keith Emmerson — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:59:28 +0000

Will they be updating OUtlook’s html reading capacity?
Have they followed the advice of the Email Standards committee?

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:51:31 +0000

Hi Katie – the simple answer to your question is no, no, no, no and no – at least on first look for any of those features. Sorry!

Clearly MS thinks tags are unnecessary when there are so many categories to play around with, and it’s stuck with the odd transparency effect for multiple calendar views (so you can “see through” to secondary calendars).

I’ve always used signatures for the autotext feature you mention – surely far easier than trying to remember multiple keyboard shortcuts? Not so sure about the mailing list feature (I’ll have to try this later) but definitely no to comments on emails.

Have you used OneNote though? Very good for dealing with projects like going through CVs, and Outlook can quickly create a new entry in OneNote. So you’d create a “CVs for writer” section and then be able to make searchable notes on each candidate.

Sounds like a bit sledgehammer to break a nut, but effective.

By: Katie Lee

Katie Lee — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:34:14 +0000

Does it do any of the things on my wishlist?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/katielee/10101137/five_things_outlook_should_have_but_doesnt/

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:23:11 +0000

Thanks GillsMan. I’m still forming my opinion of the conversation view – first impressions are that it’s an annoyance rather than a help – but I want to use it for a while before committing to this.

In terms of how it works – you can right-click on a message and select Ignore. From that point on, all the messages related to that conversation are automatically deleted (though still accessible in Deleted Items).

You can then go into Deleted Items and right-click on the message to deactivate the “ignore” command.

By: GillsMan

GillsMan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:57:53 +0000

Interesting blog, and thanks for the screenshot, though as someone who’s currently doing the MCAS exams in the Office 2007 suite, it’s slightly galling to see this stuff already!! Seeing as you’re taking requests, I’d be really interested to know more about the conversation view, and particularly the ability to unsubscribe from round robin emails of no interest to you. How does that work? And can someone resubscribe to these emails if they suddenly become relevant again?

PS – the magazine and podcasts are informative and actually interesting to read – can’t really agree with MysticMouflon I’m afraid.