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Evolution or '''Novell Evolution''' (formerly '''Ximian Evolution''', prior to Novell 's 2003 acquisition of Ximian ) is the official Personal Information Manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME . It combines E-mail , Calendar , Address Book , and Task List management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8. Evolution development is sponsored primarily by Novell. Its User Interface and functionality are similar to Microsoft Outlook . It has some distinguishing features: full-text indexing of all incoming mail, and a "Virtual Folders" feature. ("Virtual Folders" are saved searches that look like normal mail folders). Evolution can be connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server using its web interface and an Evolution add-on called Connector . Using ''gnome-pilot'', it may be synchronized with Palm Pilot devices, and Multisync enables it to be synchronized with Mobile Telephone s and other PDA s. EVOLUTION 2 Evolution 2, which has been available since September 2004 , delivers important new features:
EVOLUTION FOR WINDOWS In January programmer who ported GIMP to Microsoft Windows, to do the same with Evolution. However, there is no projected release date or even timeline at the moment. Before this announcement, several projects with the same goal had been started before ( Evolution for Windows being the most notable), but none of them had even reached alpha status. EVOLUTION FOR MAC OS X On 31 March 2006 Novell's Shreyas Srinivasan announced on the [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/2006-March/msg00070.html Evolution hackers list] that the company had released the Evolution 2.6 Binary release for Mac OS X. The 2.6 release works on OS X 10.3 and 10.4, includes the Exchange plug and is feature compatible with gnome-2.14 release. SEE ALSO
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