OT: Microsoft Outlook Web Access

I thought Microsoft hired only 'the best' programmers. You always hear of
the hard questions that they ask job applicants.

OO programming and .NET are supposed to be the cat's meow, just ask Pete
Dashwood.

So what did the best programmers with the best tools produce? Let's see.

The inbox and other directories have a number in parentheses next to them
indicating the number of unread emails. If you delete an email without
reading it, the number is not decremented. If you delete them all it still
is not decremented.

Sometimes when you delete an email it gives a error message (I have seen two
different ones) that idicates it cannot delete the email. After a while the
email disappears, i.e. is deleted an is sent to the Deleted Items.

When you right click on the Deleted Items directory and select delete all,
sometimes it says it can't delete them, but you can select them and delete
them one at a time.

For reasons best not gone into, I receive a lot of emails that I need to
delete. For example I went to lunch with an empty inbox and when I returned
I had 35 emails to delete. I thought I could select a range and then right
click and delete them all with a single click. Silly me. When I held down
the Shift key and clicked on the end of the range, what did appear to my
wondering eyes, but 35 open windows, one for each email. What progress as I
now had to close 35 windows plus delete 35 emails. I would have preferred
seeing eight reindeer with jolly ols Saint Nick.

Conclusion: Bad or sloppy programming easily overcomes good tools. The OO
paradigm is no silver bullet. MS Outlook Web access sucks.


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