Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 13, 2009
Goodbye Entourage. Hello Outlook, says Microsoft. The Redmond software giant’s Mac Business Unit says the next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac will ship with a new application Outlook for Mac that will replace Entourage. “MacBU is providing this early information to meet the planning needs of enterprise customers.”
Yeah, I’ve heard there are a few of those.
This is great news for business users who have struggled with support for Microsoft Exchange environments. Among the new features:
-Better support for email and calendaring
-Built from the ground up using Cocoa, making it integrate nicely with the Mac OS
-A better database and support for backing up with Time Machine and searching via Spotlight.
There’s also going to be a business edition of Office for Mac 2008, which will launch on Sept. 15 for $399. (there’s that date again.) while the student edition, which is the one everyone buys, will still go for $149.
There will also be a free “Web services edition,” which sounds interesting.
One question I have: Will this version of Outlook, at long last, let me import those old PST files crammed full of emails I’ve saved from Windows machines I’ve used over the years?
It will be a huge letdown if this new Outlook for Mac can't import .pst files.
Outlook, Shmoutlook... Lotus Notes 8.5 for the Mac is the way to go for business users! You can easily replicate Mac and PC Notes mail files between computers.
@ Arik & Divergex: You guys sound like politicians (e.g. Republicans) ... you can't allow an announcement/idea to exist for one moment before LOOKING for something to be critical about. MS hasn't been that innovative a company lately, lets just allow them this "fresh" idea for today. Thanks.
I can't believe Apple's luck. First they fail to create a computer on their own, because they can not retain hardware engineers of their own.
So INTEL comes to the rescue and builds computers and CPUs for them.
They can't retain software engineers of their own, and they blatantly throw insults at companies like Adobe and Microsoft, in order to make their stupid selves look "smart"...and then both Microsoft and Adobe come to the rescue and help them make software for their obsolete-out-of-the-box $3000 "computers".
Why do they even bother supporting racist, fraud artist company full of thieves, liars and BSers, which only has 1% of the market?
I can't believe Apple's luck. First they fail to create a computer on their own, because they can not retain hardware engineers of their own.
So INTEL comes to the rescue and builds computers and CPUs for them.
They can't retain software engineers of their own, and they blatantly throw insults at companies like Adobe and Microsoft, in order to make their stupid selves look "smart"...and then both Microsoft and Adobe come to the rescue and help them make software for their obsolete-out-of-the-box $3000 "computers".
Why do they even bother supporting racist, fraud artist company full of thieves, liars and BSers, which only has 1% of the market?
Wow, SteveIsMyiConArtist is so uninformed that's it's really hard to follow his comment. You are aware that at no point did Apple (until they bought PA-Semi) make CPUs. The PowerPC CPU was created by IBM, then they switched to Intel. Apple has always built their own computers.
They also build their own Office suite (iWork) and their own mail app, Mail.app. Depending on your tastes, you might like them over Microsoft Office.
Not really sure where you get the other accusations from.... I'd say to take a chill pill.
Why is this BIG NEWS?
So MS is announcing a new version of Office, a day after a Federal court injunction against selling Word in the US.
Interesting.
This is big news for Apple users who work with Exchange. If you are one of those people, you understand... if your not, then it might seem like a whole lot of nothing. The funny thing is that this is coming as 10.6 will have full support for Exchange as of next month. Mail.app, iCal, and Address book will all talk to Exchange 2007 and up. I haven't seen a decent MS PIM for the Mac yet, so we shall see. Till then, I will be using OWA and as of next month, my fast and reliable native mac apps to get into my Exchange Server. I hate office for the mac so much that I actually deleted it and use NeoOffice instead... MBU either has their hands tied or don't get it - well, hopefully they will release a real Outlook, not some crippled mess.
Wonder if the Student version will also include Outlook or still be the same old Entourage version? That wasn't clear.
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