[Wine] Re: Microsoft Office 2007 and Wine only

[Chad]

drsilk wrote:
> This is a great thread and very helpful.  Even though I do want/need to install office 2007, my greatest need at work is for Outlook 2007 to work.  Has anyone quantified the problems with Outlook 2007 not working whereas Word, Excel, etc are? 
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> Currently I need to run virtualbox with outlook and leave it open all day.  If outlook could work in wine I'd only have to boot the virtualbox once in a great while.  
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> Outlook 07 has a lot of new features when setup on an exchange 2007 server complete with unified messaging.  I need to use these at work and obviously msft doens't release all API's so no other mail client can take advantage of any of it. 
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> I've just installed wine first time yesterday on ubuntu 7.10 and just seeing if there is any way I can help get outlook working.  I'm no programmer but I have enough machines around to use as test beds to try stuff out.


I'd be interested in this as well. I currently use Crossover for Outlook 2003, but what exactly is it that's stopping it from working with regular wine?

I've tried to replicate my crossover bottle with outlook installed in it, in terms of applications installed, win version, and native dlls. However, I still can't get it to launch. I assume some people have, as  this bug report (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8870) seems to require it to work in wine for them to troubleshoot that (unless this is a crossover dev using wine's bugzilla for crossover's product, since it's based on wine).

I would love to use an alternative to outlook, but none of the alternative's available to me integrate with exchange the way I need for work. I tried Evolution and that simply crashes when trying to connect to our exchange server (exchange 2007 backend). I guess I can hope that the developer for that plugin work's out the bugs with it. 

Anyways, it would be great if someone had at least an explanation for what is keeping it from working in wine in the first place. I tried to run some different debug channels for the pop-up that comes up but I can't seem to find anything useful.[/url]