Windows Mail Contacts

[Craig Brewer]

In Outlook Express the contacts appeared in the left hand pane under the
Local Folders. I just happened to like this feature because it allowed me
to access the contacts without having to click anything else in the menu or
any other task bars. Is this feature available with Windows Mail?

Thank you all in advance for any help that you may be able to provide.

Sincerely,

Craig

 

[Dave]

Nope. Contacts have been moved to their own folder.

 

[vanilla]

You are not alone in missing the contacts in the bottom of the left pane ...
big discussion months ago on this ... MS knows many people miss the contacts
being there ... we shall see if it ever returns there ... was great for
usability ...

vanilla

 

[Craig Brewer]

Vanilla:

It's a great place to have the contacts not just for home users to become
lazier in finding things but it also makes the email process faster so
people at work (and home users as well as those working from home) can do
the email system more efficiently and it also adds quality to time
management which most of us are well acquainted with and forced to comply
with on a daily basis. Too many times have I heard people mention how their
jobs emphasize time management and with the contacts list not readily
available the email process is going to become more time consuming.

I really do hope Microsoft brings this feature back and quickly.

Sincerely,

Craig

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Microsoft has done focus group studies on this, and they found
the opposite of what you are saying, which is why they made this
change. Most users were more efficient by following this routine:

Click Create Mail, click on To, select recipient, write the email.

Also, a fairly high percentage of emails are replies, in which case
there is no need to look up the recipient.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Craig Brewer]

Well obviously Microsoft didn't do a focus group everywhere, especially
where I live. Besides, we all know that focus groups can be biased and they
definitely don't speak for everyone or the majority, they solely speak for
the purpose of showing that, yes, people have different methods and
techniques to get things done or to prove the point(s) (again biased) of the
person(s) who is conducting the study.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Having worked in the computer field for some 39 years now,
I can confidently say that nothing stays the same for very long.
Unless you adapt, you get left behind.

Gary VanderMolen