Microsoft in 2008: 10 Predictions

They took the input of millions of users (pretty sure most were K-6 age school kids)to decide on how the "Fluent User Interface" should work. I like the acronym for the "Fluent User Interface" - pronounced Phooey.

This is causing a lot of wasted time for the engineers here and all others who have as much as 20 years of experience with the old menus.

They removed features that are forcing the adoption of SharePoint (routing and others)to accomplish the same things.

Between Office 2007 and Vista, I personally am headed to Linux and Open Office - if I have to pay with my time learn something new, it might as well be free.

The only thing that I can think of would be to archive them to documents and set up a file structure. The only other alternative might be to forward them to the Thunderbird account. I don't know of a tool outside of Outlook that reads .pst files.

I still haven't figured a way to get my partner's e-mails out of Outlook 2000 and into Thunderbird working on a Vista Home platform. Any help would be HELPFUL!! :-