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Mac BU posts Entourage 2008 details (finally)
Microsoft has been ramping up the hype machine for the coming release of Office for the Mac 2008. They've set up a special website, been talking to bloggers, and posting lots of information about the coming changes. One glaring omission from information bombardment was Entourage 2008. It was a little suspicion, but it looks like the Mac BU is finally ready to talk about Entourage.The latest post on Mac Mojo is all about calendaring in Entourage, and I must say Entourage 2008 looks like a huge improvement over Entourage 2004. The UI looks much better, and best of all the features seem to be on par with Outlook.
Head on over to read the details about managing meeting requests, making sure you don't lose track of invites, and more.
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Brady J. Frey said 12:27AM on 10-16-2007
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.
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MacBookOwner said 1:22AM on 10-16-2007
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
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scoov said 7:45AM on 10-16-2007
Apple Store is down
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Kishen said 9:28AM on 10-16-2007
@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.
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xxdesmus said 5:15PM on 10-16-2007
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.
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ConsultDifferent said 5:36PM on 10-16-2007
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.
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xxdesmus said 6:09PM on 10-16-2007
@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.
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