How MS Outloook client need Mac?

Last week, representatives of the Mac Business Unit - Microsoft division responsible for the development and promotion of products Corporation for Apple computers - said that Mac users should say goodbye to the mail client Entourage and greet Outlook. Although many users overwhelmingly enjoy it, believing that now Outlook for Mac is an ideal option postal service with Exchange support, far from it. At least at the Microsoft conference on the innovations of the Mac Business Unit, said nothing to support the Exchange program Outlook Mac. Apparently, Outlook Mac will simply close the email client for the Mac, which will also work with files in .ics format. Maybe it will have access to the LDAP directory service can not.

Many companies and consumers prefer to use the Mac Exchange 2003 service and not feel the need to update something.

There is also a doubt and for support in the new version of Outlook Mac Software Development - Visual Basic. This is simply no need, because support for Visual Basic - tool works only with the package Office. For access to the rest of the developers of the operating system software for Mac still need AppleScript. On the other hand, without the support of Visual Basic, many things just will not work on a Mac. So, none of the solutions can not be considered a way out.

In addition, there are people who are still using Entourage client using workgroup servers that do not support Exchange. (For example, it Kerio Mail Server and XC Connect servers.) With the advent of Mac Outlook to use Kerio system would be impossible. For Kerio Outlook and compatibility in this case, Kerio server will need to support the Exchange Web Services service. But this is not the issue.

Many users are also accustomed to using protocol CalDAV, which is supported by the Apple system, Kerio, Zimbra and Communigate Pro. But not Outlook. According to representatives of Microsoft, it is useless - because Microsoft has Exchange.

In general, who will also be convenient to the introduction of Outlook to Mac? It can be Mac users, compatible with Exchange 2007 (or later versions of the product), which is not quite the latest version of OS Snow Leopard. Or those who wish to have a unified client that includes a e-mail, contact list, calendar, and task manager. Or who will do without the group calendar, and who need these protocols for email as a POP / IMAP / SMTP. The rest of the novelty of the Mac Business Unit is unlikely to satisfy.