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Outlook Send-Mail Infinite Loop

2008-08-30 by spike Leave a Comment

Maybe Microsoft should move its headquarters to 1 Infinite Loop. This morning, while trying to send out some mail in Microsoft’s Outlook 2007, I noticed that after nearly 10 minutes, the message I tried to send was still sitting in my Outbox.  When I clicked “Send/Receive,” like ya do, Outlook decided to get stuck in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Email, Fail, Humane computing, User experience Tagged: bug, infinite loop, Microsoft, Outlook

Xobni: funny name, good times with Outlook

2008-05-07 by spike Leave a Comment

It’s hard to come up with a decent name for your web startup. Believe me, we spent ages brainstorming, arguing, deciding everything we brainstormed was crap, and brainstorming some more before we came up with a name for the web startup that I was very briefly involved in. Whatever name we ended up with must … [Read more…]

Posted in: Email, Praise, User experience Tagged: Email, Outlook, search

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