Microsoft Details Shift From Entourage to Outlook for Next Major Release, Announces Office 2008 Business Edition
Outlook for Mac will bring to the next major version of Office for Mac a number of new features, particularly targeted at enterprise users, designed to enhance productivity.
- Cocoa. Built from the ground up using Cocoa providing users with improved integration with the Mac OS
- 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 to access the content
Microsoft also announced the introduction of Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition, scheduled for release on September 15th. The new edition will replace the existing Standard Edition and Special Media Edition packages with a single suite offering support for Microsoft Exchange. New features in the Business Edition include:
- Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition. Improves performance, brings new features and support for the latest version of Exchange Server
- Microsoft Document Connection for Mac. Helps improve access and browsing to documents on SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft Office Live Workspace
- New art. More than 200 business-related templates and professional clip art
- lynda.com training. Training for beginning to advanced users by lynda.com Inc.
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EDIT: So - what will be lacking in the 2010 edition? Or have we achieved feature parity? With the addition of Outlook and the return of Visual Basic, I'm guessing we're going to be close.
Also, I wonder how new of an exchange server Mac Outlook will need.
If we weren't getting exchange in apple mail, this would never have happened.
I wont be using it.
Do they mention that you probably need the latest version of Exchange server to run this stuff?
We dropped Office for Mac in favor of NeoOffice and Mail.app because Entourage sucked so much balls and did not play nice with home directory syncing or spotlight.
t ANY version of MS Office installed, Microsoft is now seeing a lost $$$ opportunity and NOW that are giving in and making a business version of the Mac Office suite. They are not gonna get my money, I will stick with Snow Leopard without any additional software. MS=FAIL.
er you realise that Apple would have had to pay to license exchange server support for SL? So MS aren't exactly losing out from this, if they REALLY wanted to they could have denied Apple the license in the first place.
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