On 1/11/01 11:00 PM, Remo Del Bello wrote:

> This is probably more of a rhetorical question since the MS developers won't
> be able to comment, but...
> 
> <RANT>
> 
> Why can't us Mac users have a product that is capable of the same things as
> Outlook 2000 for Windows? I love Entourage, but it doesn't support Exchange
> servers (Without Exchange additionally serving via POP or IMAP and jumping
> through calendar tricks). The new Outlook 2001 doesn't support any mail
> servers other than Exchange (The beta doesn't even launch if you don't have
> an Exchange server) and doesn't appear to have Palm synch (Hearsay since I
> can't use it myself).

I don¹t see this as being a bad thing.  Why force that bloat on the vast
majority of us that have nothing to with Exchange?  If you use Exchange, use
its client.  If not, don't worry about it.  Be grateful that something that
the vast majority of us don't need isn't being shoved done our throats.  You
have SimpleText and you have Word--different tools for different jobs.

Outlook 2000 is a grotesque, bloated, ill-designed monstrosity.

> I am currently looking at the possibility of having to switch to an Exchange
> environment and don't look forward to having to use both Outlook for
> Exchange mail and scheduling and Entourage for my 8 POP and Hotmail
> accounts. Moving calendar and contact data from Outlook to Entourage for
> Palm synch is another thing I am not looking forward to for when I do get a
> PDA. Why is so much effort on these two products being duplicated?

I synch my Visor with GroupWise at work (Gee, why doesn't Entourage support
GroupWise?  Could it be because neither it nor Exchange are open Internet
standards?) and also with Entourage at home.  It ain't a biggee....

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