[WinMac] Outcome of Meeting with Microsoft on their Outlook client for Mac.

Neil Jedrzejewski(jed[at]grafx.co.uk)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:36:47 -0000

Hi All,

I took your concerns with me to my Microsoft Exchange Seminar today
and let rip at a couple of M$ people. This was a UK thing so I may
be getting a more favourable response than the US.

Anyway, I explained that I subscribe to an independent users mailing
list and that there were a lot of concerns that you couldn't share
calendars across the platforms.

I got a mild response until I explained that in a company of nearly
400 machines, only 2 of them are PC's and one is the NT server.

I told them that I had been told by MS that "It was cross compatible
for collaboration" and now it seems it not.

Both the MS techies I spoke to sort of went "Oh shit...." and asked
me to fill in a "Question Response" form and co-signed it and
marked it urgent.

They said I'll get a response within 10 days but I'm going to
follow it up today and see what happens.

What really gets my goat though is that I've used Outlook and
Exchange in a PC based environment without problems and after
asked Microsoft so many times they said that the Mac client would
be fine and cross compatible. I mean, whats the point of collaboration
software if you can't collaborate?

Worst still, my nuts are on the line for this - we've invested
a couple of K in looking at this and implementing it into our
company and possible others.

I'm having a somewhat shitty day...

- Jed

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