![]() I had an older back-up but lost months of mail. This bit me hard one day after a sector got corrupted on my hard drive, which caused the operating system to delete my Entourage database upon a routine reboot file system health check, following a system upgrade. Regardless of how many mail boxes and accounts you had, it all was stored in this big database. Entourage's speed and responsiveness were, I believe, partly due to its saving everything in one big database stored as a binary file. A concept more recently advocated on GMail. Instead of solely relying on folders to organize mail, I could create "virtual folders" based on search rules and tag combinations. One of the many things I liked about it was its ability to put "tags" on e-mails. Back on an old 400Mhz Titanium Powerbook, it chugged through gigabytes of e-mail I had imported from various other sources, browsing, viewing, sorting e-mail was, and remains, fast. Entourage remains a very strong mail application. Microsoft Office for Mac OS X made my switch from Windows 2000 to Mac OS X possible in 2001. ![]() With my usual Mac OS X, Firefox advocacy and numerous criticisms of security in Windows (see blog archives), one would think I'd be mostly blind to any Good Microsoft may have brought to this world.Īs Robert Scoble is visiting the beleaguered mavericks from the Microsoft Mac Business Unit, I feel compelled to remind myself of the cool stuff Microsoft's produced. ![]()
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