I don't doubt it.  That makes perfect business sense.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:43 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: New Entourage
> 
> 
> My personal opinion is that they did away with Outlook for 
> the Mac because
> OS X, especially Jaguar (10.2.x) is the first OS with a 
> legitimate chance of
> displacing Microsoft from their dominance of the desktop. It meets the
> requirements of having Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/etc). 
> Therefore, the
> only missing app is a full blown Outlook client. Its 
> Microsoft's only way to
> stop the tide without giving up their entire Mac offering.
> 
> Roger
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> Inovis Inc.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erik Sojka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:11 AM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: New Entourage
> > 
> > 
> > This is more venting than any serious question:
> > 
> > What about MAPI? (Outlook for OfficeX-1)
> > What about RPC over HTTP? (I know that would have to be coded 
> > from scratch)
> > You must enable IMAP on your Exchange server?
> > 
> > Why did they get rid of the Outlook product?  Why make an 
> > organization with
> > Macs go through so many hoops?  It's not like they have to 
> > code from scratch.
> > It makes no sense.  The whole idea is to make the products 
> across both
> > platforms the same or mostly the same.  They didn't take Word 
> > or Excel,
> > retool it, take out some important features and call it 
> > something else, did
> > they?  Keerist!!
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:02 PM
> > > To: Exchange Discussions
> > > Subject: Re: New Entourage
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Depends on how one defines Exchange aware. If by Exchange 
> > > aware, you mean
> > > 'it's Outlook' then no. If understanding free/busy and 
> and automatic
> > > configuration of address book and other account settings to 
> > > support Exchange
> > > qualifies, then maybe.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > From: "Erik Sojka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:29:57 -0400
> > > > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Subject: RE: New Entourage
> > > > 
> > > > I haven't looked at it yet, but it wouldn't be 
> > > Exchange-aware if it was,
> > > > right?  When we looked at this for our lone Mac user ~18 
> > > months ago we had to
> > > > settle for the previous version of Outlook and the user had 
> > > to switch between
> > > > OSX for Office and OS9 for Outlook since we didn't want to 
> > > open up IMAP or
> > > > POP3 for him.  
> > > 
> > > 
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