The current Junk Mail/Adult Content filters do nothing more than highlight messages in the Inbox. And the filtering mechanism itself isn’t particularly good. Sure, third-party products like SpamNet work with Outlook. But Microsoft ought to be able to a better job itself.

Yes, it would be nice not to have to switch to Outlook Express to use newsgroups. And although I would like to see the functionality in Outlook, I am of the belief that there are so many other things that the Outlook team needs to do, that it just cant be justified.

Newsgroups are not used by average Jo. The Outlook team should stick to core issues.

When I am in Sydney and want to make a 9AM appointment (New York time) it should be as simple as choosing [9am] [New York] Currently I have to work it backwards and enter it in Sydney time. All I need is a “Time Zone” combo. The crazy thing is if you cycle through the properties of a calendar item the “Time Zone” value is there – it is just not exposed on the UI. Even when I reply to an appointment I can see both time zones! As an example I get:

Webinar:    .NET Enterprise Services Essentials
Time:       Thursday, April 17, 2003, 11:00 a.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EST)
Duration:   One hour, including a Q&A

Our observations suggest that all calendar entries created with Microsoft Outlook are in Rich Text format. Seeing this has a message size overhead and is less supported by all mail clients, we’d like to see an option for HTML formatting. From what we can tell, the iCalendar format that Outlook makes use of does not have any requirements for rich text.

Users should be able to access the HTML like in Internet Explorer with View > Source. This could be implemented like Frontpage with a HTML tab at the bottom of the window.

Depending on the editor used to create an email (eg Word vs. Outlook), size can vary dramatically. Unfortunately, which editor the sender uses cannot always be controlled. There should be a ‘Compress Email’ option to optimize emails using the default editor.

The context menus for the grids in Outlook should have all of the filtering features found in Access.

Often I want to search emails for certain words. It would be nice to have the functionality of the Google toolbar available when writing emails.

I would like to have this functionality in other office applications also. View details.

This error occurs when you send an email and it bounces, then you hit send again. For some reason it sends a whole lot of rubbish.