It should come as no surprise that Entourage has even ditched its own searchĮngine in favor of Spotlight when searching within Entourage.įunctionality are few (junk mail filtering is the biggest improvement here),Ĭalendaring has been heavily revised, not surprisingly acting a great deal more Searching against its contents, and Entourage’s own search engine was subpar.Įntourage now features hooks for Spotlight to use to search the database, whichīrings Spotlight’s far superior indexing and searching features to Entourage. On Entourage 2008 without breaking anything, we’re willing to take Microsoft’sĮntourage 2008 to resolve Entourage’s search inadequacies, largely stemmingįrom the fact that the use of a database prevented external applications from This is something that becomes a bit hard to test since we can’tĬreate a database problem at-will, but after spending quite some time knocking The onlyĭata that can’t be synchronized between Entourage 2008 and Exchange are tasksĮntourage 2004 was notorious for, Microsoft has reportedly put a great deal ofĮffort in to Entourage 2008’s database handling to prevent a repeat of those It’s to the point where the lacking integration features are minor. Sadly it’s still not to the same level as Outlook, but Integration between Entourage and Exchange, a process that has been continuingįor several years now. Since the biggest reason to use Entourage hasĪlways been its Exchange integration, Microsoft has further improved the Leave us? It’s an improvement, but it doesn’t completely fix what hasĬontinuously ailed the software. Offers a sliver of support for Microsoft’s extremely popular Exchange server,Īnd even then Entourage’s support for Exchange’s PIM functionality has been Its one redeeming feature has been that it

Unstable (thanks in part to storing email in a single database that was prone Entourage 2004 was bloated, it was slow, it was To go virtually ignored since the year 2000 or so, and you have Entourage up Port over the excellent Outlook, and this is the story of where EntourageĪpplication ported to OS X in as quick of a time period as possible, and then Has seen it fit to keep a separate email client for the Mac rather than try to Entourage truly is a last-and-certainly-least application, as it hasĬontinued to raise user ire over the many years. Office bundle is the Mac-exclusive Entourage email/personal information managerĬlient.

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