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 -- 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/>
