Tuesday, September 26, 2006

"Move"ing messages across accounts

Why is it not possible to move emails across two accounts? Outlook Mobile Team blog provides some answers and hints that this feature may be part of a future release. "On first blush the real limitation is in our UI. We simply don't expose the trees of folders for other accounts in our Move Message UI. " Read more...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"On first blush the real limitation is in our UI. We simply don't expose the trees of folders for other accounts in our Move Message UI"

oh that is bull**** its a damn UI you can do anything you wanted to do with it at the program level, if they make it so restrictive that they cant expose other accout trees then there is something realy wrong with what they do, this whole article smells like a fob off. looks like he is basicaly saying this is someone elses problem. anyone that would call themselves a programmer will agree that if you cant do something as simple as making the UI perform in a specific way then you have no buisness producing UI software!!!

Linley Meslier said...

I think you're right. A bit hard, but ultimately right.

Anonymous said...

yeah it was a bit harsh but im a programmer and something as simple as a ui design should not stop trees being displayed or you need to look at your basic designs. i believe in making software flexable with room for upgrades later on, if someone like microsoft hasnt looked at something as simple as these two concepts then its a sad sad day :D

Linley Meslier said...

Now I understand your reaction better.