We've been working with our friends on the Exchange team, literally on a daily, sometimes hourly basis, to make EWS great. Of course, we had been working with the Exchange team since well before Entourage 2008 or Exchange 2007 shipped, but with the move to a new client API in Exchange 2007, we had an opportunity to collaborate at a different level, something we sorely missed when we built on WebDav. The transition to Exchange Web Services (EWS) began during the development of Entourage 2008. A Mac version of the best and most full-featured Exchange client going will be a part of the next release of Office for Mac. We also pulled back the curtain on our roadmap and announced plans for a Mac version of a product you're all familiar with, Outlook. Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition completes the transition from the legacy WebDav protocol to the current generation of Exchange client development, Web Services. First, Entourage's Exchange engine got an overhaul. We released some details about the direction we're taking with Exchange.
It's been an exciting few weeks for us in the Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) at Microsoft. We received this post from our good friends over on the MacBU team - enjoy!
