Uhmm.....

[manuka.livejournal.com]

One of my colleagues got this doozy yesterday about Outlook...

My email seems to all be going to my unread mail box right now. I don'€™t think I did anything to direct that, so I am confused. When I read it, it highlights and then disappears. Really weird!"

ETA: I just got this good one, with the subject "problem with remote Outlook express":

When I'm home on Outlook the layout of the page is different and I can't just type an e-mail address into the "TO" box. The address has to be in my contacts. And I can't see the list of all my contacts and simply click on one, I have to type the name in the search box to pull it up.

I'm still kinda scratching my head as to what the actual *problem* is.

Comments

[digitalraven]

"Known bug, documented at <http://www.dictionary.com/browse/unread> and <http://www.dictionary.com/browse/read>. Please RTFM for the language that you speak before contacting support."

[crazdgamer.livejournal.com]

Outlook is performing as intended?

SHOCK! HORROR!

[digitalraven]

I'll believe that the day I see it.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

poor performance; confusing UI; UI that flatly contradicts itself depending on functionality; haven for malware; broken functionality; broken implementation of RFCs; Outlook performing as intended!

[digitalraven]

That's as usual. I dread to think that it was the intent of the designers.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

there's a quote somewhere along the lines of "either Microsoft are using their users in the longest running beta test program ever, or they are actually releasing the best they can write...."

[digitalraven]

Mike Andrews' sigmonster by way of... SteveD? I believe so, but Giggle Gropes doesn't let me search sig content.

[paraphrase below]
"I used to berate Microsoft for being lazy because they released the crap that they do. Now I believe that they're releasing the very best software they can write, and that scares me."

I prefer:
"The answer is not Microsoft. The question is Microsoft. The answer is "NO!"".

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right - it's a sig in the Monastery :)

I would have to disagree with you on the answer... "The answer is not no. THe answer is HELL NO!"

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

I think a reply email of:

Yes.

would be sufficient.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

Outlook.

That is the actual problem.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I'm still kinda scratching my head as to what the actual *problem* is.

More than likely this person has no concept that there are "settings" one can configure to change the way a program operates.