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Goodbye Entourage, Hello Outlook for Mac
Well, it was bound to happen! During a press call today, the Microsoft Business Unit announced that they are working on a version of Microsoft Outlook for Mac OS X. The news comes in tandem with Microsoft providing further details about the next major release of Office for Mac. Microsoft's Business Unit says the new application, which will replace Entourage when it is released in 2010, will contain a number of great features that will allow "increased productivity across platforms." Some of the highlights include:
- Built on Cocoa. The application is being constructed from the ground up on Cocoa to make integrating with Mac OS a lot easier.
- New Database. A high speed file-based database with support for backing up files with Time Machine and Spotlight searching.
- Information Rights Management. Helps prevent sensitive information from being distributed to or read by people who do not have permission.
With the release of OS X 10.6 right around the corner and promising native support for Exchange servers, it's funny to see Microsoft finally waking up and realizing they have got to do something to stay competitive.
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Subscribe to commentscomctrl6Aug 13th 2009 4:26PM
Microsoft probably made the announcement this far advance to perhaps soften the blow of Snow Leopard's built-in Exchange support. Sixteen months is a long time to wait for Outlook, but I can see most business users waiting to the goods from the mothership.
238DarthNinjaAug 13th 2009 4:55PM
Microsoft has finally figured out how to make everyone hate the Mac: Give them Outhouse!
TrippAug 13th 2009 6:24PM
I'm concerned they will take the project center away, one of the primary reasons I use Entourage over other software.
Paul is A ChapelAug 13th 2009 10:34PM
Don't worry. They'll follow through.
timApr 19th 2010 9:29AM
I've had a look at the Beta and in answer to Tripp's comment..Yes of course they've taken away the project center.
It was looking like a great product, but instead of adding project centre to oulook for windows as well as mac outlook, they've got rid of entourage's best feature. Who's running their development team!
MaeztroAug 14th 2009 8:46AM
Did you say "waking up and realize they have to do something"? What, you think MS just started working on this yesterday?
Why do bloggers and endusers alike fail to realize that people actually work on these things in the background without any fan-fare.
John BurkeAug 14th 2009 12:30PM
I'm sure this has been a project of Microsoft's for a while but given the timing of their announcement and it's proposed release date, I think that Apple's inclusion of Exchange support in Snow Leopard had to "light a fire" under them to a certain degree.
stevenApr 25th 2010 8:26PM
Well, they do seem to have not woken up at all! Taking away the project centre will do devastating things to users like me who use entourage just for that feature. One is that I will not be able to continue separating the emails etc from various projects and 2ndly, there will be nowhere to import the work that I am currently working on. What about all the 5600 emails I have in the database?
No project centre? Outlook is useless and might as well use the native Mac apps. What a pity! And here I was waiting for Outlook to come out since the Entourage database was becoming bulky and difficult to manage!
Jash SayaniAug 14th 2009 1:38PM
What crap!
After not being able to import my mails from Windows Outlook to Mac Entourage, and fetching all mails from the web, M$ introduces Outlook to Mac. I hope they have an option to import the Entourage mail database (and maybe merge it with my old Windows Outlook database).