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Evolution for Windows exists, it's easy to install and it works! No sooner had the ink dried on an article I had penned bemoaning the fact that OpenOffice.org on the Windows platform does not include an equivalent to Microsoft's Outlook, when a poster pointed me to a very exciting non-project.
To recap, I am quite happy with OpenOffice.org,
which I have installed on my new laptop - except for one thing. The
package does not provide an equivalent open source desktop email and
calendaring client to Microsoft's Outlook. Like many business users, I
use Outlook at least as much as Word and far more than Excel and
Powerpoint.
I pointed out that Evolution, an open source package similar to Outlook
is available on Linux but is nothing like it is available on Windows.
Why, I asked, isn't anyone working on an Evolution port to Windows?
Actually there is an official project overseen by the Gnome crowd that provides
a list of zipfiles which together contain a beta quality release of
Evolution for Windows. However, you would have to be or employ a geek
to get it installed.
However, as a slightly irate poster pointed out to me, there is in fact
an easy Evolution port for the rest of us that uses the Windows
installer. You can find out all about it at this site.
In a nutshell, a guy working at a Linux site decided to make it easy
for employees of his company to schedule appointments with customers
who use Outlook without having to spend thousands on copies of Outlook.
I have downloaded and installed a copy of Evolution from the site and
it works. However, be aware that it is a beta so don't expect it to be
perfect. That said I tested it out by sending appointment requests from
a laptop Evolution email account to a different desktop Outlook email
account and the other way. I successfully, accepted and declined
invitations to meetings and was able to do all the things I usually do
using Outlook.
It hasn't been rigorously tested but this is definitely a project worth looking at!
David Bass
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