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bromney1
I Give up!
Attended the Office 2008 training @ MacWorld in San Francisco and
Entourage was the shortest session. Yes there have been some
enhancements and improvements. But considering the amount of time
waiting for this release I was very disappointed with what I saw and
heard.
It is definitely a step backwards concerning connectivity with devices
and Apple applications. I am one of those who switched from Windows to
Mac when the Intel MacBook Pros came out. The only problems I had
switching were with Outlook to Entourage. It was beyond painful. I
spoke with Andy Ruff about this at Macworld. I don't run Exchange. I
do use a Palm Treo, I rely on categories and being able to easily and
quickly sync my data between my PIM [contacts, calendar, notes, tasks]
with my Palm for mobility. I could do if effortlessly with Outlook. I
lost a lot of functionality when I went to Entourage and had to use
Missing Sync which is not a good program [and I refuse to pay for an
upgrade that is essentially a broken beta from Mark Space which
Microsoft should be aware] There is no good solution on the Mac and I
think that is how Microsoft wants it. They make it difficult to switch
to Entourage if you're not using Exchange and they've killed what
little tools were out there making the program usable for mobile
users.
Now I have to figure out how to move back all my contacts and data to
Outlook on Windows and run it under VM Fusion. At least there I can
run Dataviz's Beyond Contacts for flawless syncs of data and
categories until I can find a replacement E-Mail/Calendaring program
because I just don't see Microsoft getting this right for the user
community.
So anyone gone this route and moved their Entourage data back to
Outlook 2003 on Windows? Any suggestions on how I can do this with the
least pain and data loss?
Thanks -- Ben
Attended the Office 2008 training @ MacWorld in San Francisco and
Entourage was the shortest session. Yes there have been some
enhancements and improvements. But considering the amount of time
waiting for this release I was very disappointed with what I saw and
heard.
It is definitely a step backwards concerning connectivity with devices
and Apple applications. I am one of those who switched from Windows to
Mac when the Intel MacBook Pros came out. The only problems I had
switching were with Outlook to Entourage. It was beyond painful. I
spoke with Andy Ruff about this at Macworld. I don't run Exchange. I
do use a Palm Treo, I rely on categories and being able to easily and
quickly sync my data between my PIM [contacts, calendar, notes, tasks]
with my Palm for mobility. I could do if effortlessly with Outlook. I
lost a lot of functionality when I went to Entourage and had to use
Missing Sync which is not a good program [and I refuse to pay for an
upgrade that is essentially a broken beta from Mark Space which
Microsoft should be aware] There is no good solution on the Mac and I
think that is how Microsoft wants it. They make it difficult to switch
to Entourage if you're not using Exchange and they've killed what
little tools were out there making the program usable for mobile
users.
Now I have to figure out how to move back all my contacts and data to
Outlook on Windows and run it under VM Fusion. At least there I can
run Dataviz's Beyond Contacts for flawless syncs of data and
categories until I can find a replacement E-Mail/Calendaring program
because I just don't see Microsoft getting this right for the user
community.
So anyone gone this route and moved their Entourage data back to
Outlook 2003 on Windows? Any suggestions on how I can do this with the
least pain and data loss?
Thanks -- Ben