Saturday, August 29, 2020

Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source

On 27/8/20 7:27 am, Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen wrote:
> Sort of related, I dust off an exchange/outlook rant of mine from a little while back (most of it still applies, unfortunately): https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2011/02/problem-isnt-email-its-microsoft.html <https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2011/02/problem-isnt-email-its-microsoft.html>


> The first revelation came when I heard a co-worker praise newer Microsoft Office releases "because 2007 and newer has discussions". I was forced to imagine how life must have been like without threading as we've tended to call it on the USENET and mailing lists since, well, the late 1980s.


I literally laughed out loud at that. So they've had threading for only
13 years now? Geez… so it's not just Microsloth's UIs that are "flat".
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

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