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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.

4 of 462 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I can't believe I'm saying this, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yeah but I'm not homosexual enough for one

  2. 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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  3. Microsoft innovation... by iiioxx · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Microsoft innovation is truly amazing. I bet they invent tabbed browsing next.

    At Microsoft, R&D stands for "Rip-off & Duplicate".

  4. Re:FP FP FP FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    check your formatting, fag!