No, functionality is no better in Outlook 2001 than Entourage, so why
bother? Outlook 2003 has features that make it better than Outlook 2001. Can
Outlook 2001 vote? Can it access more than the top level addresses? No. So
why bother running one single Classic application, when Virtual PC gives me
a bunch of apps I couldn't otherwise run on my G5? (Well, as soon as they
fix the over 2 gig bug in Virtual PC 7 anyway.

I had an executive from the XBox group describe Outlook as the "ugly
stepchild" of Office. I'm bound to agree. I love Entourage 2004 for its
project center. Outlook 2003 and 2001 don't have that. And it gives me
enough Exchange capabilities to make me happy. Fortunately for me, no one in
my company is computer-savvy enough to use the features in Outlook 2003 to
make me want to do more with Entourage 2004 than I can do. So I don't need
VPC or Classic. The best of all worlds.

As for my comment about Evolution, if we got an ambitious programmer to port
Evolution, it would be OS X Native. A whole lot better than a Classic
application even if they are feature-equivalent. (I have Suse Linux at home
too.)


on 10/7/04 8:34 PM, John C. Welch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 10/7/04 3:05 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Actually, Novell has open sourced the connector from what I've been reading
>> this past summer. We just need some ambitious programmer to port it to a
>> native program so we don't have to run X Windows.
>> I was told by a Novell employee one time that they were working on portion
>> Evolution and the connector to native OS X. But I'm sure Novell has numerous
>> reasons for not doing it.
> 
> Like it would detract from Suse sales, and I've used evolution. It's not
> that much better than E'rage 2004 anyway.
> 
>> 
>> Outlook 2001 is not an option. I don't want to run Classic just for that. I
>> might as well run Virtual PC and Outlook 2003.
> 
> So wait...spending a couple hundred bucks and whacking your CPU(s) with a
> BIG stick is equal or preferable to spending NOTHING and using native
> functions of the OS to run the application that fits your needs better.
> 
> john

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Eric
Carlsbad, CA

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Theirs but to do and die.
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