Hoffman, Daniel (SFO-ME) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I agree completely! Even if a carbonized Outlook client is ever released >(highly doubtful from what I've been told) it would probably not be >nearly as elegant and pleasant to use as Entourage.
Besides which, it�s bloody silly to have two nearly identical products whose only differentiation is that they each don�t do the necessary 20-odd percent of each other�s features to replace it�s mate. A shamefull waste of resources and incredibly annoying IMO. Sure Outlook:mac 2001 is a fine product -- especially compared to previous Exchange clients for Mac OS -- but there�s no doubt it�s Entourage that�s the Real Deal. Given that Outlook 2002 alledgedly insists on HTML rather then �Rich Text� (RTF?), and E�rage allready supports this, there is very little that actually remains to make it a full Exchange client in practice. Access to the Directory (via LDAP) and synchronization of Calendar, Contacts, and Notes (via IMAP) is pretty much it AFAICT. Authentication might be the only remaining stumbling block, and that�s solvable. Unless I�m missing someting blindingly obvious, this should be a no-brainer. >I'm sure large corporations would even be willing to pay for a "pro" >version of Office that incorporated these features seamlessly. Hey, I got my company to subscribe to the Macintosh Application Pool of the Select program just so I could get Office and use Entourage. :-) MSIE 5.x had me going, Office 98 sold me, Office 2001 made me a believer, Office v.X could very well turn me into a zealot� Kudos to the MacBU! :-) -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
