IBM taking on Outlook?
Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.
IBM has a research group that has been thinking about e-mail for about 10 years. Their newest paper is here: ReMail: A Reinvented Email Prototype. Not really lots of new information or ideas here. Everyone knows Outlook has stopped pushing the borders on innovation. Being able to view threads better, process priorities, spam filtering, automatic virus, etc. are all things a next generation client should do. Now, what will get Msft to do them?