Stewart_Whaley

The interface looks great.

Now given we only had a small preview of things to come [and the fact that it was mentioned] it seems really odd that Outlook is not getting  [more of] the new interface. Yes it shows up when creating a new e-mail but by default you get the 'old' standard menu-bar etc. It seems to me Outlook could be considered 'document' centric. I could see the default interface having a band for creating a new e-mail, appointment, task etc. And then logically once you've chosen a type of document then you get an appropriate interface for the document. For example when creating a new appointment it's not difficult to know what parameters people would want to specify for an appointment (start date, end date, etc.) I could imagine this appearing in the area just under the 'tab' bar, in a similar sense to how the new Word interface works, etc.

Since people 'live' in Outlook I'd like to see it get more attention then it's getting. And for it not to get more of the new look and feel through out seems really odd. Also think about the training in the Office suite for these applications. Scenario: "this is how the menu bar works, but for Outlook it's completely different!" ?

P.S. Outlook should also become much more of a PIM, but that's another topic.

I wonder if the 'generic' cups came from here:

http://www.cafepress.com/dotnetinfo

???

It was mentioned in the video about the lack of ability to link to specific parts of the video. Do links such as:

www.stewartwhaley.com/blog/links/Gorden_Bell.asx

not work for other people?

So what is the name [Isbn] of the book that Neil is referring to?

Is there any possibility [or logic] in allowing only an 'index' of the help system to be on a user's machine and having this refer to an external source eg. Microsoft's site or a network drive?

Furthur to this having the option of storing [only] previously viewed content locally would be interesting.

The senerios for the above are: saving space on developer's machines and allowing an easily updatable central storage for help.