Ah, there's your problem.
> Mail~ Not mentioning the poor user experience, the modal dialogs complaint apply as well, mails are not often sent, HTML signature is a pain to setup, often becomes unresponsive, or simply crashes.
I haven't had this problem. Then again, you sound like you live in the MS world, in which case the problem really isn't Apple.
My Android phone does a better job at handling Exchange accounts than my mac. All my work environments are Mac environment, I even coded on open source OSX projects for a while so I am not the kind of person to just dismiss OSX because it is not a MS platform.
Like it or not, it is a reality that the Mail & Calendar are broken, the simple fact that Apple tries to convince everyone at each release that the new version is finally a good one is enough for me to see that they have trouble developing a good email/calendar clients.
And again, Exchange is one of the most used corporate infrastructure, that's the state of the market, and Apple should support it the best they can.
They work just fine for me, when using servers that conform to standardized protocols.
> And again, Exchange is one of the most used corporate infrastructure, that's the state of the market, and Apple should support it the best they can.
You say this as if Exchange was some sort of common standard, instead of a proprietary walled garden that has been nearly impossible for 3rd-party clients to support completely and reliably for nearly a decade and a half.
Do you also expect 3rd-party office suites to interoperate perfectly with MS Office?