Microsoft's MacWorld Announcement

Microsoft has announced that it will be enhancing the Exchange capabilities of Entourage this year. Entourage is the Mac version of Outlook in the Office suite. That will be a great thing. I'm using Entourage and Exchange at work, and it definitely needs a little help. The email functions are fine, but I have yet to get anything else to sync, even the stuff that's supposed to sync doesn't get there. I've pretty much given up on that part of it. If Apple's various software pieces would provide full Exchange capabilities, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Since Mail, iCal, and Address Book are separate programs, they seem to have a bit more functionality than I get in Entourage. They also play VERY nice with each other. The problem is that they, as a whole, don't play well with Exchange.

Anyway, people who use Office for Mac have been begging for this for a long time. Microsoft keeps saying that it adds the features that people ask for, but this is definitely the exception. If they've finally listened, it will make a LOT of people VERY happy.