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Microsoft Launches New Outlook for Mac, Next Office for Mac Suite Coming in Second Half of 2015

Uninstalled already. Pretty much looks the same as 2008 (bad fonts, same functionality). Just feels faster. I guess I was hoping more like Office365 web version.

Or ideally mailbox that supports map... I'm at a point where I like mailbox app so much, I'm thinking of combining all my accounts into my .me/icloud account and using one master email box for everything.
 
MaxSB7 said:
It took them over 4 years to turn Outlook into a subscription based clone of Apple Mail? Unimpressed.
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As far as I can tell, you can do a lot more with Outlook than Mail. You can manage your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes with it too and it integrates them all pretty neatly. Chances are that if you’re already hooked to Outlook at your work place or university, Outlook for Mac may be a very interesting app. The Outlook I worked with in the past had countless options to create e-mail filters, which I still sorely miss in Mail.

How does it look in Yosemite?
 
shareef777 said:
365 only? Why is MS begging companies to move away from their enterprise software?

Also, you should note that it's for Outlook 365 subscribers only. While my company uses Office 365, we have our own internal Exchange servers, so the new Outlook is useless as it won't activate.
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You need Office 365 subscription to activate the product. You can add accounts from onprem Exchange 2010 SP2+ once it's activated.
 
Ah, too bad. After OneNote appeared on the Mac App Store, I kinda hoped they'd release Outlook & Office over the MAS, too. Given how many "critical" security fixes they keep pushing for Office 2011, the whole suite should forever be sent into Apple's sandbox.
 
I try to avoid MS Office as much as I can. Unfortunately people send here and there some of their files and I have a 2011 app to open it but I hate using it.
Outlook was OK but once I switched to Mail, I never looked back.
 
I'm not a fan of the UI. The icons look outdated and they don't really fit in with Yosemite.
 
Daalseth said:
I have hated Outlook for over a decade. When I was doing IT work up until last year I could tell the users that used it rather than Thunderbird; they called for help a lot more often. It's buggy, flaky, unintuitive, and designed by morons. It's the default email client where I work and I use Mail on my iPad most of the time just because I hate it so much. Looking down the list of "improvements" to Outlook I don't see anything that would change my opinion.
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You are comparing Apples to Oranges. The real strength of outlook is when it's linked to a Microsoft Exchange Server. The only competitor of Outlook/ Exchange Server is Lotus Notes / Domino, certainly not 'Thunderbird'. Now that's something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies, IBM should just stop
 
Installed, initial impressions : pretty much Outlook 2011 with flat Outlook 2013 styling. Now to decide whether I migrate back to it after moving to Apple Mail fully previously. It is clean looking however.

edit .... looks like migrating is going to be a hassle as it will only allow import from Office not Mail ... ? :confused::confused:
 
MaxSB7 said:
It took them over 4 years to turn Outlook into a subscription based clone of Apple Mail? Unimpressed.
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with the big difference - OUTLOOK WORKS - Apple Mail is terrible. Search the forums and see all the trouble.

Apple's Office/iWork thingy and Mail are terrible. Microsoft's superior there.
 
Tiger8 said:
You are comparing Apples to Oranges. The real strength of outlook is when it's linked to a Microsoft Exchange Server. The only competitor of Outlook/ Exchange Server is Lotus Notes / Domino, certainly not 'Thunderbird'. Now that's something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies, IBM should just stop
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Google Apps for Business is a real competitor to Exchange. OpenChange is relatively new and is also one. They may not 100% replace Exchange functionality, but being tied to Microsofts business model (Office 365 nightmare) just isn't desired in the enterprise.
 
ggt said:
I'm not a fan of the UI. The icons look outdated and they don't really fit in with Yosemite.
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That's because they are from the 2011 edition. When I first installed it, I thought I installed the old 2011 version. The screenshot on macrumors makes it look nicer than it is.
 
tmoney468 said:
thanks, worthless for me then. Maybe they'll release it at some point on MSDN
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Hopefully once the full suite is finalised and released as Office 2015 'if' its released as a standalone product (pay once). Though I'm not sure if going forward we are looking at a Office 365 sub requirement for Office.

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Satan991 said:
It is time for the subscription model to go away.
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That won't happen. All software vendors are moving towards it, allowing them to finally tackle the rife software piracy.
 
Daalseth said:
I have hated Outlook for over a decade. When I was doing IT work up until last year I could tell the users that used it rather than Thunderbird; they called for help a lot more often. It's buggy, flaky, unintuitive, and designed by morons. It's the default email client where I work and I use Mail on my iPad most of the time just because I hate it so much. Looking down the list of "improvements" to Outlook I don't see anything that would change my opinion.
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Something for you to look up: https://www.wordnik.com/words/choice

Can't you use another mail client? A lot will connect to an exchange server
 
peterdevries said:
Second half of 2015 for the rest of office? The Microsoft Mac team has been sitting on their hands for 4 years. :mad:
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No lie. I don't think I can wait to update any longer. It takes Word 2008 over a freaking hour to launch on my 2009 Mac Pro running Mavericks (not exaggerating). Up until now, I've been able to find ways to avoid using it, but I can't anymore. I was hoping to not have to buy a 4-year-old product. May have to do the 365 thing.
 
BornAgainMac said:
I'll try it but Mail will be hard to beat.
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I use Outlook at Work and Mail at home. Mail is very frustrating to me because of its very limited formatting ability. Maybe I just don't know how.

In any event, Outlook and Mail are miles ahead of Google Mail. What a mess that is!
 
snebes said:
Google Apps for Business is a real competitor to Exchange. OpenChange is relatively new and is also one. They may not 100% replace Exchange functionality, but being tied to Microsofts business model (Office 365 nightmare) just isn't desired in the enterprise.
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Ehhhh... I can't really agree. Not that GApps are bad. But I think the only reason they're a "competitor" to Microsoft in the cloud space is because MS has ignored it for so long. I don't think that will be the case going forward.
 
Google Apps

So does this version actually work with Google Apps? Full calendar support and everything missing from 2011 version?
 
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