From: Mike '/m' 

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:36:25 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:km4bk19oudam4c2enf464u7pho5p58jaj1{at}4ax.com...
>
>> I'm not saying increasing the file size limit is a bad thing.  However,
>> apparently having the file expand to the point where Outlook has
>> difficulties *is* a bad thing.
>
>When Office97 was released I don't think it was possible to have it expand
>to the 2g limit unless you were running NT4 and using NTFS which most people
>weren't so I don't really fault the Office team for not thinking of putting
>in a check for that. Heck I don't think we even had 3g drives in 97 did we?

The version of Outlook in question wasn't Office '97, or did I mis-read
Glenn's message?  My basic point is that an app should not create a file
larger than it can read.  I know that the apps *I* wrote always checked to
exceeding max file sizes.


>> at Microsoft.  Definitely looks like the second string team is writing
>> the code there.
>
>The only group at MS that has ever impressed me was the original NT team,
>and I really don't think there are many of them left anymore. If there are
>it sure doesn't show.

The original MS Excel team was excellent as well.  A lot of good ideas from
them made it into Windows OS.


I think part of the problem is that google is getting the best and the
brightest out of school nowadays.

  /m

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