CalendarReview

AppleInsider posts this extensive and thorough article about the upcoming MS Entourage 2008 and compares it to iCal and Mail.

Entourage, the MS office calendar for the Mac, is about to be upgraded to Entourage 2008. According to Mac Mojo Entourage 2008 has improved the following:

• Accept, Tentative, and Decline from the Calendar
• Meeting updates and cancellations
• Reply, Reply-all, and Forward
• Stale Invites
• Conflict and Adjacent Banners
• No response requested
• Better Exchange 2007 interaction

In my opinion all changes are not revolutionary and are need-to-haves for serious calendar app’s. MS is trying to help out a group of users (Mac users) which they have neglected for years. I don’t believe there are many Mac users who need a robust calendar tool that haven’t been disappointed by the past Entourage development and haven’t switched to eg iCal or Google Calendar. All in all necessary changes with nothing new.

What Entourage 2004 for Mac says about itself:

Reward Your Inner Task Master
Mastermind your next project with the tightly integrated, streamlined information management tools in Microsoft® Entourage® 2004 for Mac. It’s the ultimate personal information manager (PIM) that helps you handle e-mail messages, contacts, schedules, notes, documents and more from one central location. And now you can work more easily in a Microsoft Exchange server environment with the new Exchange server support built into Entourage 2004.

Company Blog:
Horrific XSLT error - Entourage returned empty - verify /srv/markthis/www/www.calendarreview.com/wp-content/in_Entourage.xml is a valid XML file and check logs.

Entourage Google Group