Manage your projects: iTaskX 2.5

MoonMan, Shawn: Not even close to the same thing. The Project Manager in Office 2008 is just to be able to start and open Office documents, and organize them properly. Microsoft Project is a work Project Management tool that allows a project manager or other supervisor to plan out tasks in a project by resource and time in an effective manner.

We use liquidplanner.com, its excellent and its cross platform.

I have to give our app, OmniPlan, another plug... I came to it as a noob a couple months ago and it's both pretty and pretty amazing. Great looking UI, powerful features, etc. I know, I know. I work for Omni. But I don't need to use OmniPlan. This is me as a Mac user talking about an app I love.

And inside baseball... I think OmniFocus OmniPlan interaction would be really cool ;)

Actually, Moonman and Shawn, I believe you are confusing MS Project (a program for project management, where managers use things like Gantt and PERT charts to manage progress of things like the development of a software program by a team of coders) with something else.

Shawn, what you see in MS Office for Mac 2008 called "Microsoft Project Gallery.app", if you fire it up, is that it lets you manage "projects" of work, as in collections of files composed of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Nothing more. It does absolutely NOTHING in relation to project management as it's known in the industry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management

True, the word "project" is pretty generic, and so is "management". So that sure doesn't help. But "project management" as it's generally understood isn't about Susie or Joey keeping all their files together for that history report in high school. It's about someone typically in management in the business world keeping track of resources from people's time to raw materials, and making sure to make maximum use of time by scheduling tasks that do not depend on each other to run concurrently, while those where step #3 can't be done before step #2 are also defined so they know to focus on getting that #2 done so they can move on to #3 (e.g., can't put walls up on house 'til foundation is done, etc.).

Also, don't forget about Concept Draw Project (http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/project/main.php)

I just wish Apple would make an iWork integrated and updated MacProject. Leverage the program with the iPhone and MobileMe and the end result would be excellent for most project management types.

Actually Moonman is right.

Open up the Office 2008 folder in applications, go to the folder labeled office, and you'll find "Microsoft Project Gallery," which you can use to work between different office programs and also manage projects.

It's hard to say how this release rates but I've been very happy with Merlin 2 as a project management application and that works very nicely with MS Project files. It's just a shame that no Mac application will work nicely with MS Project Server and I need to resort to VMWare to access the one used by my current project team in the US.

I think you're thinking of something else moonman. MS hasn't made Projoct for the mac since 1994.

Geez...could this app have a more generic name than iTaskX?