> This is more venting than any serious question: > > What about MAPI? (Outlook for OfficeX-1)
MAPI? What about it. Outlook for the Mac is dead, and long overdue as well IMO. Configuring an Outlook for the Mac to connect across subnets? I need that ongoing pain like I need another hole in my head. > What about RPC over HTTP? (I know that would have to be coded from scratch) Significantly less coding for RPC over http than to make Outlook OSX native IMO, at least as an overall portion of the development effort. But if one is going to bother with RPC over http, then you'd likely also use MAPI. Seems to be largely a waste of time on the Mac.... How many 3rd party add-ins did one see for the Mac version of Outlook... ever? More than none? What does MAPI/RPC buy me, if not a development platform? > You must enable IMAP on your Exchange server? It's enabled by default, so I'm not sure what the issue is. Require SSL and it's at least as secure as MAPI. > Why did they get rid of the Outlook product? Hopefully because they realized it sucked complete ass. Entourage was a better product at 1.0 than Outlook for the mac had ever been. >Why make an organization with > Macs go through so many hoops? I use a Mac... I'm replying on one now as a matter of fact. Everything I do on the Mac requires more 'hoops' than the PC equivalent does when it comes to accessing Windows resources. Entourage's Exchange support now allows a user to input a minimum of information and their profile is automatically configured for them. Could it be better? Sure, but it is already significantly better than Outlook for the Mac ever was in a number of respects. Hopefully, Microsoft will continue to make improvements along those lines. >It's not like they have to code from scratch. Changing the code base to support OSX is not an insignificant task and then requires functionality decisions based on a need to maintain feature parity across multiple versions of the OS. > It makes no sense. Depends on how you define the problem. I felt that ditching Outlook for the Mac was long overdue and once I'd seen Entourage was hopeful that it would become the exchange platform for the mac in the future. I'm generally glad that turned out to be the case. > The whole idea is to make the products across both > platforms the same or mostly the same. I don't think that's the idea actually. At least not based on the discussions I've seen involving the Mac Office dev team and portions of their user base. The users want similar functionality, but most recoil at the idea they'd have to use the same horrible Windows implementations to get similar functionality. They pity Windows users for some of the ways feature sets have been implemented. >They didn't take Word or Excel, > retool it, take out some important features and call it something else, did > they? Keerist!! As a matter of fact... Yes, they did. Although I'm curious to know what important features you feel are missing. Also curious to know how you feel the performance of Access or FrontPage compares to the Windows equivalents. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
