Dear Microsoft

Dear Microsoft -

Please add nested tasks to Outlook.  We have been begging for this since at least Office 2K.   I personally have ranted about it in MS forums at the release of every new Outlook version. It’s really not that difficult.  Add a Parent field to the task data structure.  Adjust the drag/drop action to assign it.  It should literally take a half hour and will make many, many of us outrageously happy.  Maybe you could pull the guy who’s out there compiling wallpaper packs for a half day or so.  Or ask Google if they have some extra interns to loan.

Please?

I know you’re a little afraid that nested tasks will cannibalize sales of Project. It won’t.  Project is too expensive a license for any of us to justify for this one function and anyone who’s not bound by job description to project management avoids it like the plague.  Plus, Project syncs with nothing and would be completely neutered in this capacity.  I promise you won’t lose a dime.

I promise.

And while you’re add it, please add tasks to the Exchange protocol for OTA sync.  I don’t know how difficult this would be for you, but we’d really like to keep them in sync between devices.   That would be great.  And if Jobs will answer your phone in-between Scrooge McDuck-esque scenes of swimming in the millions he’s made, you could propose it as the new insanely great feature for iOS 4.4.  I know it’s not nearly as great as new and improved 3D fart apps or tabloid-sized iPads, but business nerds’ money has gotta be good too, right?

If you will do this for me, I’ll buy another Windows laptop instead of a MacBook.   I’m getting ready to replace mine and I will totally go Windows again.  You don’t have to tell Jobs about this.  It can be our little secret.  There’s another OEM sale right there for you.  You can use that to pay for the nested tasks integration.  Chicken dinner!

Anyway, thanks for listening to your customer base for the last ten years.  We all appreciate it.

I can haz nested tasks? Please?

 

PS.   Can someone go ahead and buy Del.icio.us Delicious?  And please take Flickr away from Yahoo before they run it into the ground, too.

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