[blizaine]

Does anyone know if the email/calendar functions of Office2001 for Mac will be compatible with Outlook for Windows? I'd like to be able to email myself appointments from work to my Mac at home.

thanks - blizaine

[slboett]

All reports say yes. I too am waiting for this - it's the one thing that is keeping the Mac "back" here. If this works, we'll be in good shape!

Scott

[Adam Silver]

What do you mean "all reports say yes"? Entourage is strictly for personal use. Outlook for Mac is for multiple users.

I doubt Entourage will work with Outlook for Windows. That's what Outlook for Mac is for (and then only with Exchange servers).

[slboett]

In Office 2001, the new "Entourage" component essentially supercedes Outlook, a Microsoft representative said. "It's a newer and more robust program that does everything Outlook Express did anyway," they said. The forthcoming Outlook Exchange client for Mac will finally allow Mac-based companies to offer web-based email and shared calendaring/PIM information, and will have a substantially similar feature set as the PC version "along with Macintosh functionality and the look and feel," the company said.

See full story: http://www.macnn.com/feature.php?id=86

Scott

Outlook sighting. Yes, at MacWorld New York, Microsoft had a rep just demonstrating Outlook (Exchange Server Client) and I saw the calendaring working. He said the version I was looking at was beta and the final would be out in a couple of months.