Monday, April 9, 2007

The MAPI plugin for Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a great email client...and quite a lot more. It was introduced in 1997 as a replacement for the Microsoft Exchange client. Outlook integrates email, contacts, calendaring, to-do lists, and notes. It can be an extremely powerful tool for managing and accounting for your time. Outlook has extremely powerful features for collaboration amongst users too.

The drawback to Outlook's powerful collaboration capabilities is that you need to have an Exchange server in the back office. Exchange server is expensive and can only be run on a Microsoft Windows server.

But not any longer. CommuniGate provides a free plugin for Outlook (versions 97-2007) that gives your Outlook users most (but not nearly all) of the features of having a backend Exchange server.

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