David,

>Doug,
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>>If I'm uderstanding the gereral gist of our discussion it's all about speed, wouldn't you say? We're just speculating on how best to boost performance.
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>Actually, I think we're just engaging in some pseudo-relevant techno-babble. :-)

Shhh.. This is real work David! <g>

Seriously, I really would like to see a faster series of products from MSFT. I gripe every time I open Outlook on my PIII 500Mhx, 128MB machine. It taks WAY TOO LONG in my opinion and I wonder to myself, "Where are the alleged increases in performance all this new hardware is supposed to provide?"

There really are days I want to go straight to Unix and get some speed boosts and get away from a GUI that cannot seem to continue to both grow/mature and remain as svelte as I'd like.

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>>PS - BTW, I've really enjoyed this. Thanks!!
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>Same here. We must never cease to dream and innovate, even while wrestling with reality.

Best,

DD