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[–] 36 points 5 days ago (18 children)

Good luck searching in any Microsoft product without knowing the exactly named item.

Alternative would be not deleting it so you can sort by person if you remember who invited you.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (17 children)

    You do get a reminder 15 min before the meeting, where you cqn access the meeting and all the details.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 days ago (15 children)

    Only if the organizer set a reminder for 15 minutes. If they do not set a reminder, you do not get one. Yes, the organizer sets the reminder time. It's stupid.

    With regards to this meme: you can find the invite by checking your deleted items or just looking for it in your calendar.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (11 children)

    The organizer would have to deliberately disable the reminder...

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    How else does one manage to skip out on a meeting that one really doesn't want to hold?

    "Sorry boss, I tried. Had to reschedule, cause half the meeting never showed."

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (6 children)

    Since it's working with open protocols, you can't guarantee that. Someone could be using Thunderbird or some other client with a different setting.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    True, but why would any email client just ignore that crucial peice of data from the most common email client?

    Even if the devs dislike it, ignoring it would only make it seem as if your client is the one with the issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (4 children)

    No, I mean from the other side. The meeting organizer could be using an email client that doesn't set a reminder by default.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    The question still remains, I would not use a client that the most common email client is incompatible with.

    Regardless of if the most common cliebt is idiotic, it is still the de facto standard.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (2 children)

    Incompatibility with a standard is the problem of the incompatible program, not the standard.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    Sorry, but no, if I am running a company's IT department, I don't care about the official standards, I care about how well the software will work with actual reality.

    And if a random hyper compliant communications software won't work with Outlook, then it is rejected out of hand.

    So, while your oppinion might be accurate in terms of idiology, but that fails to account for real life

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago

    I'm not taking the IT manager's POV. I'm speaking from the point of view of the Outlook PM and developer. Their product has a bug because it doesn't follow spec. They're the ones who have a responsibility to fix it.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Huh? You set your alert preferences, not the organizer.

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