<em>{}</em> » Microsoft http://www.cbvenkat.net Embrace, an Indic Tech Blog Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:24:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Open at last !!! http://www.cbvenkat.net/2009/10/30/open-at-last/ http://www.cbvenkat.net/2009/10/30/open-at-last/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:25:37 +0000 Venkatraman Balasubramanian http://www.cbvenkat.net/?p=123 I am big fan of Microsoft Outlook, for it offers, apart from archiving my emails, a rich set of features that I can’t live without. For some reason Microsoft got STUCK to to a notion that it had to use a proprietary storage format for storing emails through the Outlook client. It missed to cross-sell Microsoft SQL Server Express and all the database embedding opportunities that it is selling to its customers and partners. It would be nice to see leaders show their commitment to their own products (I like VS 2010 use WPF).

I appreciate Microsoft’s initiative to “open-up” the PST file format. May be this would increase Thunderbird, Evolution and other email clients to support PST archives. Interoperability initiatives like these streamline user expectations and experiences out of commonly used software.

With no change to the current .PST file format, releasing the .pst file format specification in the first half of 2010, is still a bummer. Microsoft is a very large organization I didn’t expect them to be too agile in a earlier release of the documented PST file specification, for which the contents should have existed before the release of its first use (Look at vendors like Independentsoft).

It would nice to have this .PST storage engine retired and have Microsoft SQL Server (Express) used by Outlook. SQL Server still has more Security features than the current PST infrastructure. So why not use it?

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