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Outlook for Mac Coming with Office 2010 ? Legal Software Development Floodgates to Open?

By Ross

Microsoft’s Business Unit has confirmed that the next Mac version of Office, due later in 2010, will include Outlook, replacing the much maligned (and deservedly so) Entourage that has been part of Mac Microsoft Office for some time. Word is that this version of Outlook will match the Windows Outlook’s functionality, especially in terms of Exchange Server connectivity. Read about it in a report from Ars Technica here.

My prediction – legal software vendors, whose products often require, or at least prefer, tight Outlook integration, will see this as the signal needed to justify serious Mac OS X native development of case managers, document managers, litigation support apps and more. The lack of inclusions of Outlook in the Microsoft Mac Office suite has certainly been one of the elements cited by some legal software developers as a reason not to develop “yet” for the Mac legal segment. I think that hesitation will end in 2010. My related prediction – once that happens and we see traditional legal software developers start serious application efforts for the OS X platform, Mac legal market share in at least solo to “large small” firms will soar.

Of course, I could be completely, totally . . . wrong <g>. But I don’t think so on this one.

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Full post as published by Ross Ipsa Loquitur on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).