What's entourage?

Microsoft Entourage is a mailbox client and personal information management system developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 or later. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of Microsoft Office 2001, while the previous Mac OS version of Microsoft Office,office 98 includes Outlook Express 5. The latest version is Entourage:mac 2008, a part of Microsoft Office:mac 2008, released on January 15, 2008. Microsoft Office,entourage was replaced by Microsoft Outlook on August 13, 2009 when it announced the next Microsoft version of the Mac OS release. Microsoft Office for Mac is released on October 26, 2010.

Function

Entourage is a mailbox client and can also manage calendars, address books, calendar, and project administrators. and Microsoft, starting with Entourage 2004, offers the Project Center feature, which allows users to build and integrate different specific cases. The information in the entourage can be obtained from the entourage itself or from the outside. Entourage supports receiving messages in POP or IMAP mode and in WebDAV (using a Microsoft Exchange Server).

Entourage 2008 provides the "My Day" tool to help users organize their schedules, improve search speed, "to do" flags, improved spam filtering, phishing protection, fast browsing in favourites, and customizable toolbars.

Entourage supports some Mac OS technologies, such as Spotlight search engines and AppleScript. However, because of its large database, time machine can not be effectively backed up. Entourage also has a separate address book, but you can use isync to synchronize contacts and calendars.

Comparison with Outlook

Unlike other Mac versions of Office, Entourage does not use the name of a Windows version product. Microsoft thinks Entourage is "meeting the needs of a completely different audience." Entourage from the Mac version of Outlook Express 5, and Claris Emailer, and Entourage is "no ported code, and no Office code", That is, there is no code for Outlook and office. However, Microsoft has positioned entourage as a "similar" product for the Macintosh Exchange users.