Comments on: Fickle Outlook (2002, too) http://www.danielseltzer.com/blog/2003/11/fickle-outlook-2002-too/ Never done. Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:02:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel de Segovia Gross http://www.danielseltzer.com/blog/2003/11/fickle-outlook-2002-too/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Daniel de Segovia Gross Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:35:21 +0000 http://www.danielseltzer.com/blog/?p=52#comment-33 The reason timeout tweeks work in Ooutlook, and not in OE, is because the 2 products have little more than the name "Outlook" in common. OE was developed by an Internet Explorer splinter group, back during the Browser Wars, to ensure MS wouldn't lose in a functional-completeness match-up against Netscape. Outlook was an older and more serious endeavor, since it was slated for integration into Office from the start. The development teams and codebases for Outlook and OE were separate, and to the best of my knowledge, remain so. Douglas Stumberger, one of the dev-team members on Outlook 1.0, was a college buddy of mine. He went to MS after a few years in the Bell Labs AI group with dreams of making a sexy product for an already unsexy software company. We had epic shouting matches on the phone and many flame-threads of email as I argued for building Outlook on a relational database an Doug said that wasn't "realistic." What I really want is Enlightenment For Windows. But T-Bird sounds worth a try, too. The reason timeout tweeks work in Ooutlook, and not in OE, is because the 2 products have little more than the name “Outlook” in common. OE was developed by an Internet Explorer splinter group, back during the Browser Wars, to ensure MS wouldn’t lose in a functional-completeness match-up against Netscape.

Outlook was an older and more serious endeavor, since it was slated for integration into Office from the start. The development teams and codebases for Outlook and OE were separate, and to the best of my knowledge, remain so.

Douglas Stumberger, one of the dev-team members on Outlook 1.0, was a college buddy of mine. He went to MS after a few years in the Bell Labs AI group with dreams of making a sexy product for an already unsexy software company. We had epic shouting matches on the phone and many flame-threads of email as I argued for building Outlook on a relational database an Doug said that wasn’t “realistic.”

What I really want is Enlightenment For Windows. But T-Bird sounds worth a try, too.

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