On 1/24/01 11:11 AM, "Omar Shahine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/24/01 10:16 AM, "Omar Shahine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 1/23/01 8:48 PM, "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>> If there were only standards *and* servers for such things <g>.
>>>
>>> Standards? The Internet was built by people who created standards first and
>>> then documented them.
>>
>> Yes, but what standards exist for a calendar server? There is a standard,
>> iCal, that is akin to RFC 822, but there is no standard akin to POP/IMAP for
>> calendar servers. You could build your own (which we have) but then interop
>> isn't so great.
>
> Just to clarify here, I'm referring to Exchange when I say "which we have".
>
Omar,
I got into a discussion with one of the Microsoft MVPs for Word in the news
groups. He's cross-platform, with Windows at work and a Mac at home but
preference, where he uses Entourage.
He says that the limitation for him, which will prevent him using a Mac
everywhere, is that since Outlook and Entourage are two separate apps, he
won't be able to access the same mail accounts, if I understood him
correctly. He says that most people whose work context provides an Exchange
server (i.e. he needs Outlook there) are on the road a lot, and he can't
access his Exchange mail accounts from Entourage on a laptop, nor will he be
able to access his POP accounts from Outlook 2001 Mac. Or so I understood,
perhaps incorrectly. Therefore he's stuck with Windows, because Outlook 2000
for Windows can access the same accounts from both Exchange and POP
"flavors", as he calls them.
Is this so? Is there a Mac solution with Outlook 2001 and Entourage (IMAP
maybe?) that would work as well as his Windows method? Otherwise, I quite
see his point. Since Entourage developed out of OE instead of out of the
previously crummy Outlook 8, but now there's a better Outlook 2001 in the
works, is there really no plan to coordinate them somehow. Having one ream
in Redmond and the other in Silicon Valley, completely detached from each
other, now seems to be counter-productive, no? Although it's only because
you guys made OE Mac and now Entourage into such a great email client that
I'm sure the other team had something to emulate. Is there any chance of
some sort of working-together here?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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