Comments on: Top 5 Reasons Why I Dropped Entourage 2008

By: James

James — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:50:13 +0000

I had high hopes for office:mac 2008, let down bigstyle…

I use Outlook 07 in parallels and live by it, I use exchange to sync my macbook, windows mobile and also on web access and it runs my business. Entourage is absolutely bobbins.

No support for exchange tasks, no server side categories for calender or mail.

Complete waste of time, emailed MS and they aren’t bothered. Just replied saying it’s not a true MAPI client.

Still using outlook in parallels, means having windows running all the time though.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:35:44 +0000

carlivar - There is a huge difference between some bold text and three links and an entire webpage though. I don’t aim to go crazy, just a few formatting choices.

By: carlivar

carlivar — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:29:00 +0000

I agree with the MVP about HTML email. HTML email is evil. HTML is for web pages. If you really want to send HTML stuff why not just attach an .html document? That seems more appropriate.

There is no perfect mail client for the Mac, if you’re stuck with Exchange on the server side for business calendaring. Every single client has drawbacks.

Choose your poison.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:17:05 +0000

Mail.app under Leopard passed all my iCal and Outlook tests. Under 10.4.x it failed with odd characters and calendar integration was just OK.

By: ptackbar

ptackbar — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:22:46 +0000

Why not give Mail.app a try? It’s obviously got great integration with iCal…