On 5/13/05 3:45 PM, "Larry Deckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Has anyone using Tiger been able to search mail message contents with
> Spotlight?

No.

> If this doesn't currently work -- does anyone know if Microsoft is planning
> to add metadata to its database so that all the entourage to-do lists,
> emails, and calendars will show up in Spotlight?

>From MacCentral's January interview with Microsoft's Scott Erickson:

> Erickson said that Microsoft has been working closely with Apple to ensure
> compatibility with technologies that will be released in the next version of
> the operating system, expected sometime in the first half of 2005. Of
> particular note is Spotlight, Apple's advanced search technology.
> 
> Spotlight will index and search Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, but
> unfortunately it will not work with Microsoft's email and information manager,
> Entourage.
> 
> "It won't index Entourage and that's simply due to the way that Spotlight was
> made versus Entourage," said Erickson. "Entourage saves everything in a
> database format and we are working with Apple to see how Spotlight can index
> the database."

<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/01/11/microsoft/index.php>

Cheers,
Lars


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