How is having a browser with tabs any better then having multiple windows open?
Tabs are great when they represent
my organization.
Were I unable to make more than a single browser window, and required to place all pages in tabs in a single window ... man, that would suck. Kinda like Entourage really sucks for trying to manage email and calendaring at the same time.
As for app-app integration: that's what AppleScript and more generally apple events exist for. Just because apps are living in separate processes doesn't mean they need to be completely separate either.
IMHO, I enjoy having iCal and Mail well separated. A simple AppleScript will move an email message into an iCal event just like you say Outlook does (although I find it amusing that both Outlook and Entourage rely on scripts for this action instead of having a built-in mechanism just for that action which seems to be its whole raison d'etre). Moreover, I find it
highly infuriating in Entourage to be viewing an invitation to a meeting and be asked to accept/decline the invitation, but without seeing what's on the calendar at that same time. I mean, you'd think an integrated app would be able to just give me a simple button that says "show proposed meeting in calendar" prior to me "accepting" it.
So, maybe there is something to the integration of the apps, but Entourage and Outlook certainly aren't doing it. And, if Microsoft's resources can't get integrated apps working right after over a decade of development, it makes it seem less likely that it ever will really live up to the promise.
Other beefs: Entourage's unified database is constantly corrupting itself, messing up my emails, my calendars, and my contacts. I'd rather flaky MS code only affect one of those three!
