Bill Gates and Office 12, Outlook Thread Compressor
Bill Gates spoke about the next generation of Office products at the CEO Summit. If there is one thing I have learned about our Chief Software Architect since coming to work at Microsoft it is this: he does not waste words. I've never met him, but I have determined that much.
I liked this statement:
"It [next generation Office] will also give IT departments a more standardized, integrated architecture for efficiently managing the complete life cycle of documents and other content."
In other matters, some of the email threads here at Microsoft get very, very long. When I sort by subject, I have many messages about one issue. I have learned that, painful as it may be, it is best to start at the bottom of the thread and work my way back up (no fun). At times I want to consolidate the thread and try to bring it to a conclusion. But, I don't want to do a lot of cutting and pasting to compress the thread. That's what the Outlook Thread Compressor does. (PS: the download is one of our older ones that has not been scrubbed properly- it contains the Documents and Settings folder of the Microsoft employee who created it. Sorry, no personal files in there- but it is odd. We'll call it an easter egg.)
Rock Thought for the Day: The film 'Godzilla' was mediocre at best, the soundtrack was a little more promising. The CD soundtrack contains a great song by Rage Against the Machine: No Shelter.
Rock On
Comments
- Anonymous
May 26, 2005
Now, if you'd all just adopt the sensible Usenet policy of top-quoting as well as selective, in-context quoting, the discussion would be much more brain-friendly. - Anonymous
May 26, 2005
do you mean that the next outlook version will manage mail threads as gmail does ? - Anonymous
May 26, 2005
I agree that there are some conventions used in ng's that are useful. I agree that there are increasingly innovative ways that threads can be viewed. I have not made any claims about Office 12 features. The juxtaposition of my two topics is just accidental (most of my posts are a hodgepodge).
What's your favorite thread reader? (web or exe, doesn't matter) - Anonymous
May 26, 2005
Two tools you should be aware of:
Courtesy of John Durant, in his mention of BillG's talking about... - Anonymous
May 26, 2005
the words of BillG that grabbed my attention were "further incorporate open XML standards" - and preferably in the standard Office package not just the Professional one
PS the loudest album I own is the first one by Bad Company (oops, that dates me) - Anonymous
June 04, 2005
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