[Kde-pim] Fwd: Google SoC Project Idea: Kontact Exchange

[Vincent Panel]

On 3/7/07, Sheldon Cumming <sheldonc4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about Outlook Web Access? Does that work with linux browsers at
> all? I haven't tried.

I have, but you have to use a "basic HTML" view whereas if you use IE,
you can get a full feature web client very similar to outlook itself
(you almost can't tell the difference). You can't trick exchange about
the browser you're using : this feature only works with proprietary
ActiveX(tm) stuff.

> You'll have goalposts that Microsoft can move with the protocol at any
> time, (2007 seems to be the year they're releasing all the fancy new
> stuff) and you'll also have to fit within whatever happens to akonadi.

No, Microsoft has a general backward-compatibility policy for ten
years, so you can develop things for exchange 2003 and they should
work in 2013 (if a new exchange server is out during that time).

> Also, what is the use case for this work? The maverick linux user in a
> microsoft shop? Sure, I guess KDE 4 will work on Windows as well, but
> if you're running windows then IT has probably put outlook on your
> machine already. If IT has already made a choice for exchange, then
> you'll probably run into a lot of fun ActiveX enabled pages, etc, etc,
> likely the tip of the iceberg.
>

So why has firefox been developped ? Everyone already had internet
explorer on its machine, so was it pointless ?

If I can show kmail is able to operate correctly with our exchange
server here (at work), I can tell you a dozen of my colleagues will
switch to linux + kde.

> Great to have for sure, but it will be a challenge.

No challenge, no fun :)
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