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Weblog:   Followup Mac Conversation with Microsoft
Subject:   Need enterprise email support
Date:   2002-08-15 22:44:57
From:   timoreilly
A customer who wishes to remain anonymous (because he doesn't speak for his employer, a large corporation) wrote:

    I find it interesting that I have heard no one write about the biggest
    stumbling block there is towards corporations moving to Mac OS 10, Microsoft
    Outlook. I read plenty how hard at work Microsoft is on Macintosh software
    like Office and Internet Explorer, but yet they refuse to make a corporate
    email client that is worthwhile. It seems as if their lips are shut, their
    pens are dry, & their code is gone when it comes to creating (or even
    talking about) a Mac OS 10 client for Microsoft Exchange. In my own
    personal opinion (not that of my company) , if Microsoft would release a
    carbonized or cocoa version of Outlook, it would do wonders towards
    increasing the sales of Mac OS 10 in corporate America.


    I would find it very newsworthy to see an article inquiring into this
    mystery.
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  • Need enterprise email support
    2002-09-12 16:34:31  GrammyPuter [View]

    This currently is the bane of my work existence. I only have to boot to OS9 at work to use MS Exchange Mail. You can get your email on Entourage, but it doesn't even decode TNEF enclosures, which is a Microsoft standard. You can't see or update your calendar or access you personal store.

    I haven't been a programmer for more than 25 years without knowing that it would be a fairly trivial exercise to attach the calendaring to the Entourage calendar, and having compiled the open-source TNEF on my Mac, that doesn't look like a killer to me either. Therefore, one can only make the judgement that Microsoft's decision to not make Entourage a full Exchange server client is political.
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