Microsoft Exchange 2010 Plays Nice With Macs

We’ve been using Microsoft Exchange to handle the company mail for the last year or so.

One of the minor annoyances with Outlook Web Access (OWA) was that it only made a very small subset of its features available to non-IE users ie. anyone using a browser other than Internet Explorer got a very small feature set.

This morning I logged on to our new install of Exchange 2010 and was delighted to find that they’ve finally reworked it so that it works properly on most browsers.

Admittedly you don’t get the full “threading” and “conversation” style experience that is available to Internet Explorer users, but it is a huge improvement on the previous version.

Update: Just noticed that the “threading” and “conversation” experience is present, but the way it loads it is slightly less obvious than on IE