Mac BU offers Office 2008 sneak peek no. 5
updated 02:05 pm EST, Tue November 13, 2007
Office 2008 sneak peek
The Mac Business Unit at Microsoft has released a fifth sneak peek of Office 2008's development status, touting Entourage 2008 improvements alongside broader PowerPoint 2008 functionality. The latest update of Office 2008 includes an improved calendar user interface with color-coded categories, status indicators, and flexible To-Do list management to help manage schedules. The latest revision of Office 2008 also offers dynamic guides for PowerPoint 2008 to easily align text and graphics, improved presenter tools for Mac users only that enables greater control over timing as well as pacing, and a new condensed thumbnail view to ease design consistency while better coordinating the flow of PowerPoint 2008 slides.
The Mac Business Unit has already released several sneak peeks of the forthcoming business suite, detailing ledgers and other advanced features designed to improve the power of Office 2008 while making it easier for new users to learn new as well as utilize existing features.
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...any further information about Entourage, and interaction with Exchange server -- the MacBU may be coily claiming "saving the best for last', but this just indicates further for me that we can expect yet another c*** implementation of Exchange integration on Entourage.
I really wish someone would either:
- create a true Exchange client (seeing as how MS' own MacBU proves unable to do so).
- creates a CalDav converter, that works with iCal server (not some c*** like Groupcal, that sits on the client side, and never really works well), and feeds iCal clients with proper exchange data.
- ports and adapts something like Evolution, and/or the Exchange Connector from Evolution, to work under Leopard.