Mac BU posts Entourage 2008 details (finally)

@ConsultDifferent

Are you really that clueless? Or do you just enjoy acting like a moron who hates everything Microsoft? If you bothered to look at the rest of the blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/) you'd find plenty of other information regarding new features in Mac Office 2008.

As for why they don't release a fully-compatible Exchange app for the Mac... do you really even need to ask? It's clearly in there best interest to make a better product for the operating system that they produce and sell. It would be pretty stupid to create yet another reason why you don't need Windows (i.e., if you no longer needed Outlook). It's kind of like Apple releasing a crappy version of Safari (though Safari sucks on a Mac as well), and a half assed version of iTunes on Windows. It's obviously not in Apple's best interest to fully port over these applications to a platform that is not there own.

The key is to give customers enough of a taste of the app in question (be it Exchange support, Safari, or iTunes) so that they'll want to switch to your platform to get the full experience.

Note the notable omission of Entourage's Exchange capabilities (or lack thereof) in MAcBU's write-ups of the fantastical new features of Office 2008 - in other words, a pointless update (though not surprising for the MacBU).

Oh, well, at least Universal Binary, so we *might* get speed, if it's not offset by their bloat.

iWork '08 seems a better fit all the time.

I've played with Entourage 2008 (and the rest of Mac Office 2008 for that matter) and it's ok. I was impressed with Entourage 2008, but I am not such a fan of the rest of the 2008 apps (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint). I guess it's personal preference, but personally I don't like it. Don't get me wrong, it's better than Mac Office 2004, but that's not exactly hard to do.

@MacBookOwner
You're absolutely right. Why on earth don't they just make Outlook for Mac instead of messing around with entourage? I mean we already know that Outlook works with Exchange.

Apple Store is down

The only pertinent question for the Mac BU group about Entourage is:
Is the new Entourage a full, 100% compatible client for Exchange Server? That is, will Mac users finally be considered full citizens when connecting to the corporate Microsoft Exchange Servers? Will we be able to interact transparently the same way Windows users do?

If the answer is yes, then nothing more needs to be said.
If the answer is not exactly, or no...well, nothing more needs to be said. :p

God that 'special website' sucks - full flash with table based layout, no doctype, and using spans in replacement of semantic content? Even in web design their over 7 years behind:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macoffice2008.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Garbage in, garbage out.