We've been hard at work on Exchange 14 (E14) for a few years now, and although we've shared a lot of details and code with customers on our TAP & Live@edu programs, we haven't been too chatty publicl...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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As much progress that appears to have been made, I'm disappointed that:
- it's still using Jet and not SQL (I know, I know... unstructured vs. structured data...). I figure all the supergeeks on the product team would have figured this out by now.
- it's still a single instance of store.exe. If store.exe crashes, all 50 of your databases go kablooey, too! Bad, bad, bad!! It's a difficult problem to solve, I'm sure, but I'd like to see store.exe being multi-instanced... like SQL!
- reduce reliance on RPC. Surely there's a way to do MAPI over sockets, or something like that. RPC is just way too chatty and WAN latency is just terrible. Don't tell me to use cached-mode, either. Cached-mode is only useful if you're using the same computer ALL the time.
- OWA still does not have the capability of multiple tabs within the same frame window. Having another window open when opening/composing a message is aesthetically inefficient and sooooo yesterday!
- it's still using Jet and not SQL (I know, I know... unstructured vs. structured data...). I figure all the supergeeks on the product team would have figured this out by now.
- it's still a single instance of store.exe. If store.exe crashes, all 50 of your databases go kablooey, too! Bad, bad, bad!! It's a difficult problem to solve, I'm sure, but I'd like to see store.exe being multi-instanced... like SQL!
- reduce reliance on RPC. Surely there's a way to do MAPI over sockets, or something like that. RPC is just way too chatty and WAN latency is just terrible. Don't tell me to use cached-mode, either. Cached-mode is only useful if you're using the same computer ALL the time.
- OWA still does not have the capability of multiple tabs within the same frame window. Having another window open when opening/composing a message is aesthetically inefficient and sooooo yesterday!