On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Michael W. Wellman wrote:
> >> "Microsoft's commitment to delivering Office for OS X is a huge win for
> >> Apple, particularly because software developers have not flocked to the new
> >> operating system as aggressively as the company had hoped,
> >
> > Am I correct in assuming that any asked for improvements for Entourage, will
> > only be in the OSX version?
>
> > I feel this is an important question for loyal Entourage users, who are not
> > going to flip to OSX immediately.
>
> You are almost certainly wrong.
>
> But, as it's pretty much the same team of people doing the work, we will
> almost certainly see a delay on Entourage Classic as they work on Entourage
> on X.
>
> What you've got to ask yourself is "What course of action maximizes
> Microsoft's revenue stream?" That will almost certainly be the one that
> they follow.
>
> If I were Microsoft, I'd sometime soon toss an update to Entourage Classic
> over the wall after ensuring that it was fully compatible with MacOS 9.1.
> That ensures that they have an entry in both the MacOS Classic market and
> that people running MacOS X don't go looking at their competitors products.
>
I'm pretty certain that the original MacNN article that I read reported
that MS commited to an update pack for Office 2001 in March. I would
assume that the fixes for identified Entourage issues would be part of
that.
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