Microsoft You Fail!

We recently updated our core IT infrastructure to SBS 2011, got new PC's and the latest versions of Office in order to leverage the best out of it's features.

A few months into using it, I decide it might be cool for us to put a calendar in the Exchange 2010 Public Folders for holiday requests, that way, everyone can see who's got what days off via Outlook. Rather than having to shuffle over to look at a small wall calendar in our sales office where they are all penned in in 'old school' style.

So I get it set up, put a few holiday dates in and set them for 4-day reminders.

Then what do I find out? A calendar in public folders doesn't support reminders, how fucking lame is that?! I mean, part of the feature of calendars in Outlook is reminders, it means that people get fucking reminded about important dates coming up and saves them having to move back and forth between their messages and calendar tabs.

But Microsoft, in their wisdom (and fuck knows which highly-paid peon decided this, probably over a gay latte in their solid gold seating and tables cafe in their fucking 'campus' in Seattle) must have thought that it's much better to not have that feature for absolutely no practical reason whatsoever.

A global reminder to tell them all that key personnel are off a few days in advance saves a lot of headaches, it's not too much to ask is it?

I mean, why not put the feature in and make it configurable to turn it off? That covers organisations that have several million mailboxes and IT don't want their system getting clogged with reminders hitting that many mailboxes.

Fucking Microsoft.