Joe, who is Mac user, upgraded to MS Office 2004. And he's quite pleased with the Entourage improvements.
I am in the midst of the comtemplating The Switch - changing from Windows to Mac. My main issue is that I must have complete and seamless compatibility with our corporate e-mail and calendaring server - which is of course, Outlook running on top of an Exchange server.
Now, Microsoft advertises that Entourage is totally and completely compatible with Outlook/Exchange. However, this summer, one of my non-profits upgraded to Entourage. To get the calendaring functions to work, the office also had to change from an OSX server to an Exchange server. And, at that point, e-mail became intermittently unstable. Unexplained crashes and the common calendaring function did not work.
After much research, we found that we were not the only ones with this issue and in fact, Entourage cannot provide common calendaring functions on top of an Exchange server. Right now, we're evaluating whether to give up on common calendaring and drop back to the more stable OSX server or to install a third party product that might enable calendaring on the Exchange server.
This would be yet another example of why I hate Microsoft.
And I'm still stuck trying to figure out whether I want to make The Switch....
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