Great to see all of the activity continuing on this discussion!
Twet: Actually, while Google’s consumer mail solution does have a decent matrix for the premium client, they also have a “Basic” version for down-level browsers. Also, their client is strictly an ad-based, hosted solution without an enterprise offering, so
comparing them to an enterprise mail solution like OWA, which is fully administratively controllable, is kind of apples to oranges.
enki: If you read my posting above, as well as the last section of the blog, you will see that our release decisions were based almost solely on customer data and need; this is the primary thing that we think about as we plan our product releases – we wouldn’t
sell many copies of Exchange if we didn’t think about the customer’s needs first. ;) That said, we are not selling a windows only solution; I’ve personally spent every day of the past two years trying to make the best possible solution for non-windows
users, for low-bandwidth users, and for blind and low-vision users. Trying to accomplish all of that in a single client has been a very exciting and rewarding experience, and I think that the OWA Light team has done an amazing job delivering a quality solution
for the Exchange 2007 release.
Victoria: Outlook 2007 + Exchange 2007 will allow you do this. :)
You can go here for a screenshot:
http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/office/images/preview/programs/outlook/65533_800x597_calendar.jpg
And here to read more details:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/programs/outlook/overview.mspx#E5C