while you're there, tell them to 'enhance' Live Meeting so it doesn't suck on we can atleast use HOST from the MAC. Also tell them to 'enhance' their websites for Mac Safari/Firefox users.

Now if I could only take the PST file from my Windows Outlook and open it in Entourage without third party software or hours of conversion time, that would be great!

Seems pretty basic, really...

Well, I have to say I'm quite happy they are doing this. I sure hope we have the money to update Entourage soon! Otherwise, we'll have to upgrade to Snow Leopard and use Mail/iCal, etc.

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Eric

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence. - Will Rogers

Why can't the just FIX SharePoint so it doesn't suck entirely, and can work with real web browsers, instead of hacking some custom limited interface to avoid addressing the real problem? Sheesh. Yeah, sure; macbu can't fix SharePoint, and certainly can't tell Mac users to use recent Internet Explorer, so they hacked what they could. Still stupid.

@midlantica Join the club. I felt completely screwed over by Microsoft over this. In my case it really was for home use. I signed up to a hosted Exchange provider after being disappointed with Mobile Me. It cost a similar amount and has a similar feature set for my needs (sync mail, contacts and calendar between computer and iPhone).

The provider includes a license for both Outlook and Entourage. I started out with Outlook and apart from hating Outlook's UI it worked fine. Then I switched to Mac and Entourage worked fine also. I prefer the cleaner UI (less clicks to do common tasks) though mail is slightly delayed by a few seconds compared with outlook and iPhone. But overall I was happy.

Then I purchased Office 2008 Home & Student. Big mistake. Without warning at any stage it actively disabled the Exchange account in Entourage. I had to uninstall Office then reinstall Entourage with the original license key. Thankfully all the mail and settings remained intact.

Microsoft's support over this issue was completely useless in every possible way. And from what I've seen read of others caught out by this, their support staff have no consideration or empathy over it whatsoever.

Nevertheless. This update, being free, is very welcome. Given Microsoft have spilled that they're well into the next version of Office for Mac this was a nice surprise. I just hope it arrives before I get tempted to upgrade to Snow Leopard where I'll probably ditch Entourage for the built-in Exchange support.

Did the author of the article find out if the patch to Entourage will support full Exchange Task sync?

I would like Entourage to be functionally the same as Outlook 2007 - with respect to its Exchange calendar, mail, tasks and notes sync functionality. Its been a long time since Outlook 2001 for Mac was a practical solution.

Its too bad that Exchange 2007 will be required. So many Hosted Exchange services are 2003-based - mine certainly is.

http://blogs.msdn.com/nadyne/archive/2009/01/07/the-macbu-beta-trifecta-entourage-exchange-web-services-messenger-and-document-collaboration-companion.aspx

Exchange task is coming!