microsoft office!

[comebackdwn]

so, my dad is interested in buying a mac. however, he is all about microsoft outlook and no other mail system will do. he asked me to research about it. i looked at a microsoft office for mac package while i was at dingy ol' best buy today. and it didnt appear it came with outlook....does mac not run outlook or is it just sold seperately?

thanks guys!

 

[72930]

Microsoft has Entourage for the Mac instead of Outlook...Mail is much better IMO and is included with the Mac

 

[Gee]

Microsoft has Entourage for the Mac instead of Outlook...Mail is much better IMO and is included with the Mac

But Entourage is significantly different from Outlook in features and look-and-feel. The do the same thing essentially, but it's not like for like.

 

[tersono]

Outlook is Windows only. The Mac equivalent is Entourage, which offers pretty much the same feature set and comes with MS Office:Mac

Both blow goats. ;-) Get him to use Mail, which - in Leopard - offers similar functionality with a far superior UI.

 

[mkrishnan]

Yes, that's right, and it continues for Office 2008. The only options you really have would probably involve running Outlook on top of Crossover, VMWare, or Parallels.

I don't have any strong positive or negative feelings about Entourage; I migrated from Outlook 2000 to the (then Panther) Apple Mail, iCal, and Address Book programs. In a single user / independent environment, I find them pretty much as usable, with particular strengths in some areas (I haven't used Office 07 yet, but the thing I instantly miss in Outlook 2003 is that searching for e-mails is a bear compared to Mail in Tiger). In a collaborative environment, I think Outlook shines, especially since Apple is just beginning to implement their collaborative systems for the Address Book and iCal portions of their solution.

 

[tersono]

But Entourage is significantly different from Outlook in features and look-and-feel. The do the same thing essentially, but it's not like for like.

hmm - I don't know that I'd go as far as 'significantly' different. there are differences, yes, but Entourage and Outlook have a fundamentally similar feature set - just with variations in UI. Unless you're connecting to an Exchange server, they're pretty much interchangeable.