Nathan Breskin-Auer has a great summary of the “light” version of Outlook Web Access 2007 at the Exchange team blog. I’m disappointed that there isn’t a Tasks module in OWA light, since I use both tasks and Macintoshes heavily.
I’m also disappointed that Microsoft isn’t going to certify OWA Premium for use with Firefox. This may seem odd, given that I’m not a huge Firefox fan. I understand that it’s a resource issue; the OWA team chose to spend their efforts on adding features instead of adding support for a browser that is lightly used (if at all) within their target customer base. However, not shipping Firefox support is bad for three reasons:
- it belies the power of OWA’s AJAX implementation, which would work well with any modern AJAX-capable browser.
- Microsoft’s competitors (including Domino Web Access, Zimbra, and Scalix) support Firefox
- The education / university market has lots of Firefox adoption, and it’s also a market that Microsoft’s trying to crack
Maybe for SP1? Of course, the program team’s answer is likely to remain the same: “when we see customer demand”. Fair enough.
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