Reply to Barry: Opps! Sorry Barry, you are correct. I thing I was mistakenly extrapolating the ultimate _vision_ of the MS office suite to become, someday, totally cross-platform compatible the way may other mainstream apps have become such as Excel, Word, and many Adobe products such as PhotoShop, GoLive, etc.
I stand corrected. I guess my frustration in not being able to jump between these two platforms is affecting my brain. I love my MAC, but I just can't figure out any feasible way to "share" the Entorage/Outlook database the way some other data is able. Believe me, I do understand the mind boggling extremes which must exist at the coding level and I could not even begin to contemplate tackling their commonality. Oh well. Just thought someone might have figured out a way to share the data but I certainly can understand what the programmers must be up against. John Response From: Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Where on earth (or even on the web) did you see MS make a promise like that? All the official words I have seen come out of MS have stated that Entourage & Outlook are two completely different & separate entities. I have never seen anything to suggest they are attempting (or wish to attempt to) bring the two together. Original Subject: Re: Cross-platform Compatibility between OXC & XP Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:22:33 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" At 7:54 am -0500 16/2/02, John Hay Wrote: Did a search in the archives but came up with nothing about any possibility of MicroSoft delivering on their promise to make Office fully cross-platform between the MAC (Entourage) and the PC (Outlook) versions. Even with the release of MAC OFFICE OSX there is no way to share the main database between MAC and PC other than the dreaded and utterly hobbled importing/exporting routines which lack full translation between the two platforms. Does anyone know of a third party conversion utility that can fully translate all of the subtle nuances between these two platforms, or has anyone heard any word of MicroSoft fulfilling their promise finally come through and deliver a common format in the near future the way Excel and Word have for some time now ? -- 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/>
