I hope Apple fixes the problem with the current Beta, which is that you can't use Open
Transport apps in Classic mode...not without Port Deflector.
Don
At 5:54 PM -0800 2/24/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>On 2/24/01 5:16 PM, "Harry (lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Seeing as how Apple only plans to provide the anemic, non-multi-SMTP and née
>> NeXT Mail.app as an e-mail choice under os X, I'm wondering what *real*
>> e-mail options os X users will have available to them?
>>
>> Outlook Express does not appear to be a likely candidate, as MS has most
>> likely end-of-life'd it in favor of Entourage. Entourage is only available
>> with MS-Office, and frankly, it's not worth that much (single version,
>> anyone?). Other mail clients are neither here nor there, are either not
>> ready (like the eternally beta PowerMail), or are missing features that
>> users of OE have grown accustomed to.
>>
>> Will MS step up to that plate?
>>
>
>Don't forget that OS X has a "Classic" mode (OS 9.1+). For the first 6-8
>months, probably the only email app available in OS X mode will be the
>primitive default Apple email app. So most people will go on doing email
>from Classic, using whichever app they're presently using.
>
>Then, I would guess that Eudora, which doesn't have to worry about things
>like improving calendar, tasks notes and integrating with sister apps (viz.
>Word. Excel) as Entourage does, will be fairly quick to present a carbonized
>version for OS X. Maybe some others, too, like MailSmith.
>
>Then Entourage, along with the rest of Office, will hit the OS X screens
>sometime in the fall. After that, who knows? Maybe MS will have time to
>carbonize OE if they feel it serves any purpose. It's possible that they may
>still think that it helps get new Mac users into the MS mode. But since
>Apple will have its own default email app, and therefore are unlikely to
>reintroduce OE as the default email app, I agree that that's unlikely. My
>guess is that somewhere around a year after Office for OS X is introduced
>(maybe summer 2002), the various Office apps may become available
>separately. So if you can wait until then, using OE in Classic while the
>bugs are worked out and after, you might be able to get Entourage for X (or
>OS 11) on its own. Otherwise, I suppose you'll have to consider Eudora if it
>comes out sooner.
>
>I think that if MS starts to lose former OE users to Eudora in a big way,
>they'll come out with a self-standing Entourage sooner than that. But most
>people will want Word + Entourage anyway, so I'm sure that there will always
>be a big incentive for most people (not you, it seems) to get the whole
>Office package. I'm sure that will always be cheaper.
>
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