![]() It is unable to understand event categories, preferring to force users to move events between multiple calendars to get any sort of organization. ![]() It can talk to an Exchange server and display things… mostly. However, the Calendar app Apple provides is, well… I think “basic” is the kindest way of putting it. For reference, check out Mail Act-On and MailTags, and anything else from SmallCubed. Mail.app works really well - better than I’d remembered, actually, and there are some really excellent plugins for it that add a lot of functionality to make it solidly a better email client than Outlook (there may be similar plugins for Outlook, I don’t know). Thus, I returned to Mail.app and Calendar.app (which used to be known as iCal). #Showing attendees in busycal installI was pretty surprised, as I’ve been using Outlook on Windows for the last 3 years, and it actually works relatively well (as long as you install something like XKeymacs to get working Emacs-like keybindings, like Ctrl-E to go to the end-of-line). ![]() However, I found its interface for general-purpose email use really slow. Of course, I have a copy of Microsoft Outlook on my Mac, and that has some excellent features - for instance, it has a good understanding of rooms vs people as meeting attendees, and also has a great room-finder feature for when you’re setting up new meetings. I recently began using a Mac full-time in a corporate environment again (yay Amazon!), which is to say that I’m using it to talk to a Microsoft Exchange server for both email and calendar events. ![]()
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