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

Scott Nishimura(Scott.Nishimura[at]trw.com)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:23:26 -0800

Neil,

   If worst comes to worst, you could always use a browser and
OWA (Outlook Web Access) to get to calendar data (this is how
I get to my calendar from my Mac at home). This is
truly a cross-platform solution, although not nearly as fast
as the native PC client and it doesn't have all of the bells
and whistles. Still, at least you can see your *?#@ calendar.

I, like a lot of people on this list, have never been able to
see my (PC-created) calendar with the Mac Outlook client - heck,
I didn't even find the word "calendar" in the Help index.

MS is obviously using a different definition of the phrase
"cross-platform" than most of us are...

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Jedrzejewski [mailto:jed@grafx.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 1:37 AM
> Subject: Outcome of Meeting with Microsoft on their Outlook client for
> Mac.
>
>
> 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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