finally - death to the format. PST ! Microsoft announced yesterday (World News Network) finally publish the format specifications of its shameless and never sufficiently disgraced. PST file (if it were still immune, are file within which the ignoble Outlook seal all e-mail after downloading. horrendous technology objects they created, create and create countless headaches to all the unfortunate users of Outlook, because of their tendency to grow uncontrollably, corrupted and become unmanageable in general and not backupped).
of this embezzlement have always bothered me deeply, because it is the
my post, and it is absolutely unacceptable to me that my
content is then captured by a program that is careful not to make them available in any way if not by himself.
makes me see that even from the binaries (pre-Office 2007 to be precise) of Word you can retrieve the text ... and the Office tools - Outlook excluded - has always offered to export content into other formats. Maybe bad, maybe losing the formatting, but wow, at least in some way you recover! Outlook however has refused to export anything in a usable, unless you want to imagine that export to text message each - one by one - can be defined as a way usable.
I hope that soon born of interoperability tool, the tool would be for me to release a couple of years of mail from the chains imposed by the cowardly policies of a past employer.
UPDATE: Microsoft has actually released the specifications
. From a first reading, I understand why so many people. ... Incrocci PST a severe case of over-engineering ...
computers, Microsoft , Outlook, open source
