Virtual PC and Outlook

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miscellaneousmedia

As you mjight tell from my previous posts over the last few days, I'm
having a hard time migrating fro Outlook to either Entourage or iCal.
It's unfortunate because I like the rest of the Mac system. But hey,
whom am I? Anyway, I was thinking about putting Virtual PC on the Mac
and running Outlook. Will this really work? As seamlessly as on a PC?
Sounds too good to be true? Thoughts? Worth trying?
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

As you mjight tell from my previous posts over the last few days, I'm
having a hard time migrating fro Outlook to either Entourage or iCal.
It's unfortunate because I like the rest of the Mac system. But hey,
whom am I? Anyway, I was thinking about putting Virtual PC on the Mac
and running Outlook. Will this really work? As seamlessly as on a PC?
Sounds too good to be true? Thoughts? Worth trying?
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Yes it will work, it will give you all the features that Outlook on the PC
has. What it won't give you is the speed of a real PC. If you have a
high-end G5 system it will certainly be workable. It is 'useable' on my
1.33GHz G4, but anything slower would be painful.

Have you tried Web Access? It should give you all the features you need at
better access speeds that VPC, but you are accessing through a web page.
 
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Bill Bryson

Outlook runs reasonably well under Virtual PC although I recommend a recent
G4 Mac or a G5 Mac. However, the major problem with a Virtual PC solution
apart from slow performance (in comparison to a "real" PC or the native Mac
applications) is the introduction of the Windows OS and the necessity to
keep it "secure" from the many exploits, spyware and viruses targeted
against Windows.
 
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