Re: Can I run Windows 7 Outlook from Ubuntu ?
I was able to get office 2007 installed in wine, and pretty much everything worked, but outlook was never able to connect to the exchange server.
For the most part, thunderbird with the lightning extension has worked really well for me.
As for why somebody would want outlook on Linux, there are still some tasks you need outlook for to manage your exchange server. I've had to pull outlook up on another computer a few times to set up some filters on a mailbox, autoreply, and signatures, even though the filters run on the server. At least since they run on the server, once they're setup, I don't have to keep outlook running.
I heard Exchange 2010 was supposed to allow OWA premium to run in other browsers like firefox, so maybe that can replace some of the need to use outlook to manage a few tasks. I haven't had to mess with 2010 yet, so I'm not sure if it's OWA premium gives you the filtering controls you get in outlook.
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