On 8/17/04 1:42 AM, "Lars Schou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I haven't heard of anyone complaining to the Outlook team for giving >> up Mac support, only bleating about MacBU for agreeing to take on >> Exchange. > > Frankly, outside of this list I doubt many people know or indeed care > which team at MS writes the code. So what? It still makes a huge difference. I have no idea (but I can guess) whether it would have been easier for the Outlook team to carbonize their code for OS X, or for the Entourage team to start an Exchange implementation from the ground up, grafting it onto an utterly different application. The point is that doing the latter is not child's play. It's hard, and it takes time given the limited resources to do that plus everything else. MS did a "survey", you may recall, where the overwhelming majority of users said they'd prefer Entourage, rather than Outlook, to do Exchange in OS X. Well, that may have been convincing to Marketing to go that direction, with the public declaration of faith in Entourage giving the promise of more sales. But there's no way any regular customer could have the faintest idea that MS couldn't just "move it over" to Entourage. It's totally unreasonable to expect MS to wait around who knows how much longer before releasing Office 11 (2004, or whatever year it would have come out), waiting for Entourage to turn out a "complete" (i.e. Outlook 2003) Exchange client. The world just doesn't work that way. Give them time and they'll get there eventually. In the meantime, they are in the business of releasing regular upgrades of Office. > FWIW, I've gotten a lot of > interesting info from MS contributors here (and through their blogs) > and trust that their relative quiet means they're hard at work on SP1 > for Office 2004. A far cry from what you actually said in your last message: > MS seems awfully coy about addressing this issue. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP MacOffice Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- 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/>
