Entourage Exchange

[JHH]

I have the Home and Student Edition of Microsoft Office 2004. Entourage has allowed me email and contact information from my office's Exchange server. I buy the Home and Student Edition of Microsoft Office 2008, expecting an upgrade in functionality, and find that Entourage 2008 will not allow the same (in fact, no access to) Exchange services I had with the prior edition. I paid $149 for the upgrade and get reduced functionality? How on Earth can Microsoft justify this?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I buy the Home and Student Edition of Microsoft Office 2008,
expecting an upgrade in functionality, and find that Entourage 2008 will
not allow the same (in fact, no access to) Exchange services I had with
the prior edition.

Nope. Indeed, Office 2008 Home edition does not have Exchange support.

I suspect MS wanted to prevent corporations from buying the home edition
instead of the full one and removed Excahnge support to keep them from
even considering this,


Corentin

 

[William Smith]

I have the Home and Student Edition of Microsoft Office 2004.
Entourage has allowed me email and contact information from my office's
Exchange server. I buy the Home and Student Edition of Microsoft Office
2008, expecting an upgrade in functionality, and find that Entourage
2008 will not allow the same (in fact, no access to) Exchange services I
had with the prior edition. I paid $149 for the upgrade and get reduced
functionality? How on Earth can Microsoft justify this?

I'm not here to justify Microsoft's actions. They can do that themselves.

What many people fail to realize is that the version of Office 2004 you
have was limited to just the education market (students & teachers).
Office 2008 Home & Student has lifted that limit so that anyone can
purchase Office at the $149 price tag.

Because Exchange is primarily used by corporations and educational
institutions, I'm not surprised that Microsoft imposed a limit on
Exchange functionality in the lesser priced product. Many educational
institutions have volume license agreements already with Microsoft and
can still offer discounts to their students for Office with Exchange
support. I'd imagine that Microsoft wants all educational institutions
using their "commercial grade" E-mail server product to do the same.

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
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