Re: Mac Mini possible convert...

[Don McAllister <donmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27 Mar 2005, at 16:38, Gerard McGovern wrote:

>
>> There is the Apple mail software but this is not MAPI. I've
>> also used thunderbird and entourage (included in Office). I
>> believe the Entourage client is the only MAPI enable client
>> but its support for exchange is limited. You may need to do
>> some research on that.
>
> Entourage is NOT MAPI sadly. Outlook 2001 was the last MAPI client for
> the Mac and there hasn't been one since. And as you can guess by the
> name Outlook 2001, it is not OS X native.
>

Thanks for the correction Gerard!

This seems to be a major blip in Apples plans for world domination
then? As far as I can see the platform is superb for the home
environment and is just dandy with POP and SMTP mail, access to Windows
shares via SMB, integrates quite easily with Windows shared printers,
fast, responsive, stable, etc, etc but no real MAPI support for
corporates?

Seems to be a missing part of the puzzle to get some serious numbers of
users switching across.

As an aside, just spent a pleasant few hours assembling my first iBook
using iPhoto. It's of a recent panto that my daughter took part in and
she sat with me and helped design the ibook. Very easy to set up and
the results are very good. We've kept it fairly simple and only
scratched the surface of what's available. I've just uploaded to Apple
and am now waiting for the finished product to be printed, bound and
shipped to me!

iPhoto is one if the apps shipped with iLife05 included with the mac
mini.

It let's you output to PDF format as well and looks great.

Cheers
Don




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