What's better about Entourage 2008?

[John Wolf]

I skipped on the upgrade and could have bought it for a low cost as I saw
few new features. What are the major new features of 2008 that are lacking
in 2004?


Thanks,


John

 

[Diane Ross]

I skipped on the upgrade and could have bought it for a low cost as I saw
few new features. What are the major new features of 2008 that are lacking
in 2004?

Spotlight search, favorites bar, customize tool bar, Exchange support. Also
little things like we finally have first name and last names columns for the
Address Book.

 

[Ed Kimball]

Spotlight search, favorites bar, customize tool bar, Exchange support. Also
little things like we finally have first name and last names columns for the
Address Book.

Those are all true, and they are probably worthwhile for many people. For
me, they do not overcome having to give up VB macros in Excel, which I use
often. I'll wait for Office 201x.

 

[Diane Ross]

Those are all true, and they are probably worthwhile for many people. For
me, they do not overcome having to give up VB macros in Excel, which I use
often. I'll wait for Office 201x.

You can use both 04 and 08 at the same time. Entourage 2008 and Excel 2004
would give you the best of both worlds.

 

[Kerry]

You can use both 04 and 08 at the same time. Entourage 2008 and Excel 2004
would give you the best of both worlds.

Really for me it has been speed. It just is more responsive, searches
are way faster etc. Some GUI tweaks but nothing major there. If you
rely on something like VBA that wasn't in 2008 stay with 2004. If you
only used say a Palm for sync 2004 had a conduit but if you're using
anything else it requires sync services and both versions have issues
with sync services. For me, anything that improves speed is beneficial
and 2004 was pretty sluggish. The sync problems though drive me nuts a
long with everyone else.