Re: [Evolution] Advice

[Garrett Mickelson <garrett penguincomputing com>]

Ximian Team,
Hire this guy. Move him to Boston and put him on the payroll. His head
is a goldmine!

Garrett Mickelson

On 18 Jan 2001 14:42:09 -0800, troy hakala wrote:
> Hi, I'm pretty excited about Evolution and wanted to do what I can to 
> help it become a huge success....
>
> I used to be a Program Manager on Outlook at Microsoft (please, don't 
> throw stones). Since Evolution is trying to improve upon what Outlook is 
> and I'd love to see a product that is what Outlook could have been, I'd 
> be more than happy to share my knowledge about what we learned in 
> Outlook from users, both end-users & corporate users. Hopefully, this 
> info can help the development and prioritization of Evolution.
>
> For instance, there's features that users constantly asked for but the 
> Outlook group constantly ignored (Microsofties tend to believe they're 
> geniuses and don't believe customers really know what they want) -- for 
> example, an integrated newsreader was always a top request that 
> Outlookers didn't feel like building ("NNTP is dead" was the typical 
> answer;). And there's things that Outlook tried to do but failed 
> miserably at -- performance, reminders, timezone-handling, etc. And.... 
> there's some things that Outlook actually did right -- the Outlook bar, 
> for example.
>
> Anyway, if anyone's interested, I'd be happy to share what I learned 
> from my Outlook days -- hopefully some good will come out of the time I 
> endured there :). Not intended to dictate, but give some insight so that 
> a lot of work isn't put into areas that most users don't necessarily 
> need/want.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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