On 8/16/04 11:34 PM, "Lars Schou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 16, 2004, at 8:44 PM, John C. Welch wrote:
>
>> Five minutes of checking saves a lot of frustration due to incorrect
>> assumptions. Almost like all the people who insisted that MS promised
>> the
>> FULL Outlook featureset with E'rage 2004, yet an examination of the
>> actual
>> announcement shows nothing of the sort.
>
> I'm not at liberty to disclose the name of the company here, but I have
> it on good authority that the gentleman responsible for the Macs at a
> *very* large media group was promised just that by someone fairly
> senior at MS about two years ago - this was after he expressed his
> disappointment with the Exchange connectivity in E'rage v.X, how having
> to rely on Outlook 2001 was holding up their migration to OS X and that
> he would consider moving off of Exchange if significant improvements
> weren't made in the mid-term.
>
> I've seen a copy of the email that he sent out to IT managers at their
> sites earlier this year when it became apparent that E'rage 2004 didn't
> deliver on that promise - the words 'bait' and 'switch' were definitely
> in there as were some more colorful language. Maybe he was a fool for
> taking a forward-looking statement at face value and who knows if that
> statement was offered in good faith or not - the fact remains that
> E'rage 2004 does not completely meet the needs for many sites who run
> Exchange and MS seems awfully coy about addressing this issue. A small
> corrective, perhaps, to your earlier statement re. the corporate (Mac)
> customer getting priority over the consumer.
You haven't provided anything but 3rd-hand rumor ("he said/she said"). This
is useless. MS never promised "full Exchange support" - they promised better
Exchange support in 2004, and that there is. You have not provided anything
to contradict that. They have also said that they plan to keep on improving
it. Nobody knows the timeline. They obviously bit off quite a large chunk
when Entourage was given the responsibility of being MS's Exchange client in
OS X. I haven't heard of anyone complaining to the Outlook team for giving
up Mac support, only bleating about MacBU for agreeing to take on Exchange.
Classic still works, actually better than ever in Panther. Until Entourage
functions at the level you want for Exchange, nothing's stopping you from
going on using Outlook 2001, is there?
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
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