The code is about 4 years old and Microsoft promotes Evolution via the Novell/Microsoft SUSE Linux coupons - now oversubsribed to Banks and Walmart. You also have to realize that Vista was to have replaced the file system with "something database" and that exchange server is not SQL 2005. Bottom line - Microsoft can not afford to base its future on Outlook. Outlook (AKA out of luck) has been the source of viral infections/ DOS attacks etd. There are many outlook like email products.
The question not asked in the article is was the engine replaced for some legal reason. I suspect Microsoft may have violated some patent/copyright like the company did with its browser. In the latter case Microsoft should just pay the 480 million multiple courts say is owed the University of California Berkelely, rather than make Active-X and Java components awkward and slow with a script wrapper.
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