[ANN] The Entourage Help Blog: "Will Snow Leopard be the end of Entourage?"

[William Smith]

My jaw dropped.

Right on this page "Apple -- Mac OS X Leopard -- Snow Leopard"

Microsoft Exchange Support

Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 built
into Mail, Address Book, and iCal. Mac OS X uses the Exchange Web Services
protocol to provide access to Exchange Server 2007. Because Exchange is
supported on your Mac and iPhone, you'll be able to use them anywhere with
full access to your email, contacts, and calendar.

I don't have to ask myself if Apple can pull this off. Of course they
can! But with a "free" Exchange solution "out-of-the-box" what does this
mean for Microsoft Entourage?

Continue reading at
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/06/will_snow_leopard_be_the_end_of_entourage.html>.

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[Sam Brown]

Apple licensed the exchange protocol, as did nokia and others. The exchange
team has licensed it to third party companies, including competitors.
Frankly I welcome it. As near as I can tell the office team has botched
Entourage horribly, and I mean HORRIBLY. It's a weak cousin to its Windows
counterpart, Outlook. No html hyperlinks, no table support, weak exchange
support, no PST support. They've obviously crippled Entourage on purpose -
it's not even compatible with outlook!!

So if Apple and others can license the connector and we can use apple
software or non ms software to connect to exchange, then fantastic - I'm all
for it. Then I can sync my outlook with an exchange server, shoot my laptop
full of holes, then sync my apple with my contacts and reclaim my pst file
through the cloud.

You have to realize that the exchange team and the office team are separate
teams. The Office for MAC team is yet another team in Microsoft. The Windows
mobile team is yet another team. As Windows mobile has not done a stellar
job of capturing market share (thus exchange seats), the exchange team is
licensing to everyone to protect its own assets, rather than lose exchange
seats to iphone, blackberry, and nokia. So apple's ability to leverage
exchange was really about mobile devices, and I think the effect on
Entourage was a side effect.

But really, Entourage is such a pig, I'd be happy to keep word and excel
(even without VB support) and delete Entourage forever. Not to offend the
Entourage MVPs, but this program is just simply nonsense.

 

[William Smith]

But really, Entourage is such a pig, I'd be happy to keep word and excel
(even without VB support) and delete Entourage forever. Not to offend the
Entourage MVPs, but this program is just simply nonsense.

Tell us how you really feel, Sam! ;-)

Don't worry about hurting any MVP's feelings about products they help
support when you've done a good job backing up your opinion.

Remember, we're not Microsoft. We're just volunteers awarded by
Microsoft for helping others.

I personally look forward to the competition between the two offerings.

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>