Sounds like you answered my question.

> The RTF format appears to be being quietly
> deprecated, even within Outlook.

This would explain the decrease in the past few years in receiving these
attachments.

Thanks...
-- 
Bob Johnston


> From: Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:11:10 +0100
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
> Conversation: Winmail.dat and Entourage 2004, v11.2.4
> Subject: Re: Winmail.dat and Entourage 2004, v11.2.4
> 
> I don't know for sure, but I doubt it very much. The RTF format appears to
> be being quietly deprecated, even within Outlook. I can't see any
> significant advantage to MS to spend the resources developing a new
> technology on the mac.
> 
> -- 
> Barry
> 
> 
>> From: Bob Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:53:40 -0500
>> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
>> Conversation: Winmail.dat and Entourage 2004, v11.2.4
>> Subject: Winmail.dat and Entourage 2004, v11.2.4
>> 
>> Anyone know if Microsoft has plans to incorporate into Entourage 2004, or
>> later versions, the ability to process the Outlook winmail.dat RTF
>> attachment file? We don't receive as many as we used to. Maybe newer
>> versions of Outlook have a different attachment handling technique?
>> 
>> It seems to me that the parent company of both applications would want them
>> to communicate seamlessly without the end user jumping through hoops using
>> other applications to convert this winmail.dat file. Is this a difficult,
>> technical task to accomplish? Just trying to understand.
>> 
>> Thanks...
>> -- 
>> Bob Johnston
>> 
>> 
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