MS Office for Mac is finally just going to go ahead and replace Entourage with Outlook.
For the e-discovery folks, there is just one question. Does that mean Office for Mac users will have a PST that is easily transferable to Windows? Does anyone know? Getting email from a Mac into a form we can work with tends to be one of our complaints, and anything that gives us one less complaint can only be good, right? 😉
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I didn’t even realize you couldn’t use more than one signature in a message in Outlook 2007. I use that feature quite often for boilerplate messages at work, but we’re still using 2003 there. Thankfully, the latest edition of WinXP News has the way to continue to do this in Outlook 2007. How to get…
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’re probably aware that things have been quiet here because I’ve been out of town. I was in Phoenix last week for 3 days of Trial Director Certification/Training, and with the hotel wifi being rather lame, I haven’t been around to update the blog. 🙂 Anyway, the…
It’s not normal for us to be using a platform that works one way, then changes and works another way two weeks later, but that is absolutely the way the Agile development is going to happen. The decision to change will be pushed by the business case for making the change, eDiscovery will be a second thought, if a thought at all.
That means two things in my mind in addition to the things Greg lays out in his post below.
1. You have to test, test, test. Constantly. You have to stay on top of new features, old feature changes, undocumented changes, etc.
2. The legal industry as a whole is going to have to get a lot more comfortable with “good faith efforts” being a little more of a gray area as these changes get made. What we could collect easily before, may require a lot more time and effort today, or it may not be possible today because of a bug in a recent update.
It’s going to happen. Whether you want to talk about M365, Google, cloud document management, cloud review platforms, or even cloud backups. Things will happen beyond our ability to control them, and those things will impact eDiscovery. Are we going to be OK accepting that?
That was my first thought when I saw a link to the ESI Calculator. Why are we still comparing GB’s of data to how many printed pages it equals. It’s irrelevant, and seriously, look at the totals on that page. You are not printing any of that, how many pages it is has nothing to…
Had an interesting thought the other day when talking to an attorney about e-discovery. We were talking about a situation that I’ve seen in the tech world all too often, where you have backup tapes, or other program data sitting around, with no way to actually read the data. Either the tapes are for a…
I really want to blow up this bit of the Grappling with the e-Discovery Monster article and hang it in my office, it says that much! Others in the industry emphasize that just having an e-discovery practice group doesn’t mean that the entire firm has a grasp on e-discovery. “The general goal for firms is…
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Mail.app is going to have Exchange support in Snow Leopard, so I doubt there will be serious adoption of Outlook on OS X.
Andrew
That's fine for the people connected to Exchange, because we can always extract a mailbox from the Exchange server and not worry about Mac compatibilities. I'm more hoping those without Exchange will use it and not have to try and get email out of mail.app stores. That's kind of a pain. 🙂
Probably won't happen though.