On 6/13/03 7:43 PM, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 06/13/2003 06:02 PM, Remo Del Bello at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On 6/13/2003 2:50 PM, Scott Haneda deftly typed out: >> >>> First off, I hear IE is dead, is the Office line going to continue, namely >>> Entourage? >> >> Why would you leap to the conclusion that since IE is no longer going to be >> developed that Office must be next? The MacBU is a small development team >> and they have to try and focus their attention on the apps that will bring >> them the most return on their coding investment. IE is free and brings them >> no revenue for the effort put into its development. Why continue to do so >> when there are alternatives that are, in some cases, better than their own >> browser? It would literally be a money-losing investment for them. >> >> Besides, Microsoft in its entirety is abandoning stand-alone versions of IE. >> Since the MacBU can't integrate IE into the Mac OS, why continue to develop >> something that no longer fits into the company's goals? I'm sure IE will >> continue to live on in the MSN client, but then it will become software that >> will bring in income. > > Ehm, it was a question, I leaped to no conclusions, I specifically asked "is > the Office line going to continue", if I had jumped to a conclusion, I would > have assumed Office and Entourage were dead, and just started complaining > about it :-) On 6/13/03 7:21 PM, "Dan Hopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess we will be limited to Netscape, Safari, (and what others...) The > story I saw didn't say anything about Entourage. I don't have any idea what > they will do with Entourage. That is my primary email client. > > Have any of you heard what their plans are for Entourage? It was announced a year ago by the then-General Manager of the MacBU that a new release of Office Mac was certain to be released and was in development. A statement by Jessica Sommer, Group Manager of MacBU, today at: <http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/13/explorer/> says that development won't stop even after the next release. Office:Mac makes money for Microsoft. There's no reason to stop development. IE was free and cost MS lots of money to keep going. It was well worth it when IE was the _default browser_ on the Mac. It was part of the 5-year Apple-MS deal of 1997. Having IE and OE as default browser and email app on the Mac was great PR for MS. It got Mac users liking, or at least accepting, of MS after the great debacles earlier in the 90s. The point was to get Mac users friendly enough to MS that they'd buy Office Mac. It worked. There's no point keeping IE going when it's no longer the default browser in Mac OS X. Don't forget Safari is still officially "beta". When OS 10.2 is released it will be officially released and the default OS X browser: perhaps Apple won't even include IE in the Applications folder. MS had some lingering concerns about their big corporate clients who like the same apps on Windows and Macs, if they have any Macs. I think MS have been reassured by recent developments that Safari will soon offer all the features IE did, and they can just drop it. They may make noises about the need for browsers and the OS to work together, but they would, wouldn't they? The real reason is that it makes no sense commercially to keep it going. It still makes lots of sense to keep Office Mac going. Don't worry about it. -- Paul Berkowitz -- 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/>
