The Exchange Team could come up with all the reasons it wanted (some more legitimate than others), but the message from Exchange as a product was always clear: If you aren’t on Windows, well, it sucks to be you. Every version of Outlook Web Access (OWA) had two faces: The fun happy face that users of Internet Explorer on Windows saw, where every version of Exchange put you closer to feature parity with Outlook, and the sad, angry face that everyone else saw that was-to be kind-crippled in comparison. From bizarro ways of encoding rich text e-mail, (winmail.dat, anyone?) to a host of features that were forever out of reach unless you were on Windows using the most current version of Outlook, being a Mac user in an Exchange world meant you were sitting at the kid’s table in the kitchen, staring longingly at the adults having a good time.Įven aside from fat client issues, possibly the worst bit was the fact that even with webmail, Microsoft made sure to put non-Internet Explorer users in what the company thought was their proper place-the seedy part of town. For most Mac users, the phrase Exchange Server has been the cause of a great deal of annoyance and frustration.
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