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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. 5) Cmdr Taco... PROFIT!!! by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1) Release next version of SlashCode under "NOT-GPL"
    2) Integrate Active Directory Support, rename it "SlashCode.NET"
    3) ???
    4) Sell to Redmond for use in Outlook-Longhorn-2005.NET
    5) Cmdr Taco... PROFIT!!!

    Nah, that just makes WAY too much sense...

  2. Re:Why has this taken so long? by Xzzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mods aren't that quick, next time I advise completely draining any subtlety out of your humor by including inane "" tags or an overabundance of smileys. Subtlety is old hat anyways, I think the british invented it and every upstanding US citizen knows they haven't done anything funny since the holy grail.

    They're so busy modding comments, you see. They don't have time to detect humor unless you tell them that is indeed what it is.