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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.

3 of 462 comments (clear)

  1. Microsoft innovating again... by N4m0r · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Oh wait, look at that. Apple's Mail.app has threaded email already...

  2. Outlook already does this by jameson71 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Doesnt outlook already do this if you choose to view the folder by thread?

  3. This is new? by AaronGTurner · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Threaded email? It's hardly new. Many email clients can already do it.