On 5/14/04 6:45 PM, "Dan Frakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/14/2004 2:03 PM, "Mark Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Awesome, thanks Frederico! Sometimes I think that Microsoft does stuff like >> this just to mess with us because we are using Macs instead of Windows. You >> would think that with Microsoft's vast programming resources they could >> dedicate at least one person to maintaining the same functionality that they >> had five years ago in previous versions. I am sure that they would argue >> that Apple changed this and Apple changed that on us, so we can no longer >> Make Entourage do what we could back in OS9. > > Mark, while I agree with you that many of the responses you've received > recently have been less than useful, at the same time, posts like the above > aren't very constructive, either. In my experiences, the people in the Mac > Business Unit are "Mac people" who want to make their products as good as > they can be. Although there are a few features from the OS 9 version of > Entourage that no longer exist (and even some features from Emailer that I > still miss), there are also scores of features -- arguably more important to > some users than being able to play custom sounds -- that have been added to > Entourage since Office 2001. Perhaps adding support for the ability to > easily select any sound on your hard drive would have taken development > resources away from implementing threaded message viewing. Sometimes that's > the reality of developing software. I doubt that any member of the Mac > Business Unit is purposely trying to punish you for being a Mac user ;-) > Right. As best I recall, it was a simple system hack that allowed access to sounds in Classic. That hack is simply not available in OS X. It probably would not be _impossible_ to replace the functionality by some other means, at the the cost of some much more important features that needed to be implemented. To choose the moment when three years of many, many developers' time and efforts are being realized in the greatest release of Office on either platform - software that might even persuade a few users to ditch Windows for the Mac - to come out with nonsense about MacBU being "anti-Mac" is to set oneself up as a figure of ridicule and derision. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- 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/>
