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Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-ideas dept.

prostoalex writes "Scott Hanselman shares a document from Microsoft Research internal Web site on Gina Venolia's latest research in user interface design. Since half of the e-mail conversations require reply and then further replies, the model is not too different from current Web forums. Future Outlook versions might integrate the nested interface for e-mail conversations." Gotta say, that'd be pretty nice to have.

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  1. Re:Mozilla Has this by Smedrick · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Um...the news isn't the threading format, it's that MS is going to add it to Outlook. Dumbass.

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