On 10/20/04 5:40 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My point simply is that I don't care about any of that. These three groups are > all on the same team and if we can put a man on the moon, we can have feature > parity for Macs. Move everything onto DAV, merge or partner the Entourage and > Outlook groups, give Entourage developers the same access and clout as Outlook > developers. It's not a matter of money (MS has enough). It's not a technical > challenge (all the source code belongs to one company). It is a matter of > will. > > If MS is going to claim that they want Macs to be Native Exchange clients, > they need to keep their word and not try to execute a sales strategy while > they lie to us. > > CLEARLY MAC USERS ARE SUPPOSED TO TRY AND USE ENTOURAGE WITH EXCHANGE, GET > FRUSTRATED AND SWITCH TO WINDOWS. > > I just wish MS would be honest about it. Oh nonsense. That's just frustration talking. I have no doubt that you're going to see feature parity that doesn't require porting half of windows. (this is for more of the esoteric stuff, not what you're talking about). Are you going to see it by a set date? No, you aren't. Is 2004 a noticeable improvement over v.X? Yes. Can you make things that don't work over DAV with Exchange 2000 work over DAV with Exchange 2000? No. The MacBU doesn't have a magic bucket of money. They have to justify costs over sales like anyone else. They get looked at VERY closely because they ARE so unique. They also are quite small. They will probably always BE quite small. That's the downside of writing Mac software at MS. They aren't OfficeWin. They aren't even the Xbox team. So they do what they are able to, and the result, while not perfect is damned good. As well, E'rage is not the only part of Office. There's critical issues in the rest of it, like getting object embedding to work cross platform, better RTL support in Word, etc. So improvement, like all things, happens slower than you'd like. That's all man. Relax. -- "He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. He who conquers others has physical strength. He who conquers himself is strong." -Tao Te Ching -- 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/>
