Re: At long last -- Extra Outlooks!

[Alexander Bochmann <ab () lists gxis de>]

...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.