Entourage Weblog : MacBU

New article on Mactopia: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac: Working with Exchange Server

entourage — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:09:00 GMT

Mentioned in gilg's blog:

This white paper describes the different Office for Mac options for working with Exchange Server. The paper also describes the new features of Entourage 2004 for Mac, and provides configuration and troubleshooting information for administrators tasked with supporting Entourage 2004 for Mac.

It is a pdf, get it here: Working with Exchange

Insights into MacBU Innovation

entourage — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:17:00 GMT

Lead Program Manager on Virtual PC for Mac, Omar Shahine details how innovation occurs within Microsoft's Macintosh group:

Contrary to what people may think, we don’t share features with any other teams. We aren’t obligated to implement anything, and we aren’t tied up much by external dependencies (and this is important). Not having dependencies, like Office has on Windows and vice versa really frees us up. Our only dependencies are internal, and since we control the schedule, it’s much easier to resolve any issues. Having said all this I don’t think it’s fair to say that our applications are so much ahead of our Windows counterparts (well maybe the Project Center is). The thing is, we focus on a very specific set of features (because we are a small team) and we try to get it right the first time. We don’t have the tens of millions of customers to cater to that some of the Windows teams do. Additionally, we appreciate and borrow many features from Windows Office (where we see fit). Good examples of this are the three column view in Outlook 2003 that we added to Entourage. In fact, I'm humbled by all the functionality found in Windows or Office. It's simply amazing what capabilities lie within those two sets of products. Again, all there because to some set of customers they are critical.

Check out Omar's blog.

Entourage: Grade A IMAP

entourage — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:59:00 GMT

Fellow MacBUer and former Entourage lead, Omar Shahine compares various mail clients on Mac, PC, and Linux and their support for IMAP. Not surprising, given that Omar and Mike Fullerton led the design of Entourage's IMAP functionality, Entourage scores the highest among the group. Dennis, Entourage user and well-informed commenter, noted that Entourage lacks Format-Flowed.