I opened my inbox today to see an email from IBM about “top FAQs regarding Lotus Notes” (not sure why they felt the need to say “top FAQs” that rediculously redundant). After scrolling and scrolling and scrolling I noticed a link to “information about Lotus Notes 7.0.2″ so I clicked it.
Much to my surprise, I learned that this is much more than a maintenance release (as its version number denotes). Included in this release is:
- USB/WANDA functionality
- A Blog template
- RSS capabilities
- Additional Mac support (finally! )
- 64-bit support across a variety of chips, hardware and platforms
- An improved admin-based upgrade option
This is BIG news! The ability to take my entire Notes experience with me to any computer and have access to my Lotus Notes system, desktop, etc. … WITHOUT having to install Notes on that system is HUGE!
A blog template is a very cool new tool/template to throw in there!
RSS! Awesome. I’ve been wanting to integrate that into some of my apps and could have using articles/agents/hacks out there from others, but now its built-in.
Additional Mac support. First, I hope its Universal. Even if its not, there’s a LOT of things the Mac version of Notes needs … I’ll take whatever I can get.
An answer to the 64-bit question … phew! We’re sitting on several server upgrades waiting to see what they’ll support, when and where.
Eh… the admin upgrade thing. I’ve heard that before. I won’t hold my breath, but I’m glad they’re working on it.
So in summary, this is an AWESOME list of upgrades. I have NO CLUE why they don’t promote this more and make it a 7.5 release instead of a small maintenance release. Regardless, I’m excited.
Check out the article for yourself.
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