Microsoft Entourage

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Microsoft Entourage

Entourage v.X in the Inbox screen
Developer:	Microsoft
Latest release:	v2004 (11.2.5) / July 11, 2006
OS:	Mac OS X
Use:	email client
Website:	Microsoft.com

Microsoft Entourage is an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October of 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS, included Outlook Express 5. The current version is Entourage 2004, released as part of Office 2004 in May 2004.

Entourage's personal information management features include a calendar, address book, task list, note list, and project manager. With Entourage 2004, Microsoft began offering a Project Center, which allows the user to create and organize projects. Information may come from within Entourage or outside the program.

1 Compared with Outlook
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Compared with Outlook

Unlike the rest of the Microsoft Office suite, Entourage did not take the name of its Microsoft Windows counterpart. Entourage (especially the earliest versions) lacks some of the groupware functionality of Outlook when acting as a Microsoft Exchange Server client. Although Microsoft continues to improve Entourage's groupware capabilities with regular updates and service packs, some Exchange functionality is still only available via Microsoft Outlook. Such missing features include the "Out of Office Assistant", read receipts, and certain server side rules. If available, users can use Outlook Web Access in tandem with Entourage to bypass these limitations.

Entourage is also unable to natively read Outlook Personal Folder files and cannot read archived emails without first re-importing them back into the main database. Microsoft has released a PST Import Tool for Entourage 2004 for Mac. However, this utility can only import PST files from Outlook 2001 for the Mac and is incompatible with any PST files created with Outlook for Windows. One can import an Outlook 2000 compatible PST to Outlook 2001 and then use the utility to import into Entourage.

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