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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.