Many of the comments posted by customers to the blog run by Microsoft's Mac division have pleaded or demanded that the Office e-mail client do a better job of replicating the connections that Microsoft Outlook, the client included with the Windows version of Office, has with Exchange.Ī Microsoft spokeswoman, however, said that the Mac development team won't yet divulge any additional details of the Entourage-Exchange operation in Office 2008 beyond the little already posted on the team's blog. The lack of support for Exchange Server has long been a bone of contention among enterprise users and corporate e-mail administrators using the Mac version of Office.

The upgrade offer is good through March 15.Īlthough Microsoft's Mac development team has kept details on a short leash, the company did say yesterday that the two higher-priced packages - the standard Office and the Special Media Edition - will include support for both Microsoft's Exchange Server and Apple's own workflow automation tool, Automator. The only charge: A $10 shipping and handling fee. The guarantee gives customers in some countries an upgrade to Office 2008 if they purchase the current Office 2004 for Mac between now and when the new version ships. The new promotion, which Microsoft dubbed a 'technology guarantee,' may have been in response to the delay. Previously, the suite had been scheduled to ship sometime in the second half of the year Microsoft was never more specific than that. 'It was clear from our June and July quality checkpoints that no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't release our product in time for the Christmas season with the kind of quality we wanted,' Eisler said on Aug.

Last month, Microsoft was forced to push the release of Office 2008 into next year after Craig Eisler, the Mac group's general manager, said the software was plagued with quality issues. The addition of Expression bumps the price to $499.95, or $299.95 for those who are upgrading from a previous version of Office. New to the line is Special Media Edition, which bundles Expression Media for Mac - a digital content manager that organizes photos and video and audio files - with the four core applications.

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