One client I'm working with currently has a few users who are road-testing the Notes 8 Standard client before it is rolled-out throughout the company.  One of the users mentioned to me that the Search button is missing from the View toolbar.  This button is still there in the Notes 6 and Notes 7 clients:

However, the same button is not available in the Notes 8 Standard client:

Even more interesting is that the button is still visible in the Toolbar Preferences dialog:

Well, it turns out that the user now needs to enable the new Search toolbar for Notes 8 Standard:

I'm guessing that the Search toolbar button is still in the preferences for Notes 8 Basic users.

Another change the user mentioned is how unread mail messages now appear in black bold typeface instead of being "red".

Since Notes 8 has been available since August 2007 (over 1 & 1/2 years), I'm sure that these items are common knowledge to everyone reading this.  I guess my reason for bringing this up is that the user in question (and the company he works for) has been using Notes since version 4.0.  I can see a lot of initial confusion when people are migrated to the new client.  In Notes' defense, this UI confusion won't be any different than switching to the new Vista interface or the Office 2007 "ribbon".

Just out of curiosity, has anyone seen a document that compares the Notes 7 (and prior) UI with the Notes 8 (and 8.5) UI?  I'm thinking of something that has screen shots akin to before and after photos...

1. Matt Holthe03/27/2009 12:37:47 PM

There are a couple of tech notes that provide some comparisons and some things like "this menu option in Notes 7 is now here" and stuff like that. Maybe not as many screen shots as you want, but good information.

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