Well, I've heard MSFT people speak of Outlook's ability to execute the way scientists talk about how a bumble bee can fly. It does it, but they don't really know how. I won't begin to comment on the principles behind it - all I can tell you is that it is what it is. t > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Bochmann [mailto:ab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:42 AM > To: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: At long last -- Extra Outlooks! > > ...on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:28:34PM -0800, Thor (Hammer of God) > wrote: > > > it turns out, Outlook is doing nothing close to what I feared. > > Basically, the second instance sees that another Outlook window is > > running in the same interactive logon space, and when it starts, it > just > > calls another popup in the previous Outlook space and then > terminates > > itself (that's close enough, anyway). The good news is that there is > no > > "user hopping" or "boundary crossing" here. > > Sounds comparable to what the Windows Explorer does when > it is not expicitly set to run as a separate process (or > started with the /separate switch). > > Is there some design principle behind this kind of behaviour? > > Alex.
