On 8/17/04 1:52 AM, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Then I sincerely hope whomever the not very smart person from MS who said that had their hide thoroughly tanned. Prior to Exchange 2003, it wasn't even possible. It's possible now, but you'd have to require Exchange 2003. If you want Exchange 2000 compatibility, you lose features. > > 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. Maybe he should have called someone else at MS when what one person told him didn't jibe with any announcement as to features from the MacBU? Or did he think that they were lying/being coy in all the announcements? john -- "War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill -- 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/>
