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1. TELL IF MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC 2004 WAS UPGRADED TO 2011 MAC OS
2. TELL IF MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC 2004 WAS UPGRADED TO 2011 FULL
3. TELL IF MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC 2004 WAS UPGRADED TO 2011 WINDOWS

(Entourage was largely based upon Outlook Express for Mac, which itself was based upon Apple's Claris Emailer, through a migration of developer talent that flowed from Apple to Microsoft).

TELL IF MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC 2004 WAS UPGRADED TO 2011 MAC OS

In 2000, Microsoft decided to drop Outlook for Mac (which was a stagnating Classic Mac OS app) and start over with a native Carbon app that used Internet standard POP and IMAP. MAPI is essentially impossible for third parties to implement, and complex enough that even Microsoft didn't want to support it on its own Mac client.

TELL IF MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC 2004 WAS UPGRADED TO 2011 WINDOWS

The problem was that MAPI is a mess of insecure RPC that was largely tied to Windows APIs, making it impossibly difficult to deliver cross platform while keeping features in parity and security in check. The original Outlook for Mac client used Microsoft's proprietary MAPI to talk to Exchange Server, just like the Windows version of Outlook. Microsoft is also finally getting around to adding better Exchange support to Office, ditching its Entourage app for an entirely new Outlook, which has been missing on the Mac for over a decade. What's new: Exchange support in a revamped Outlook client On page 2 of 2: Exchange support in Outlook, VBA.

Microsoft says the effort to sync up the cross platform experience in Office is motivated by the fact that 75% of Mac users also use a Windows PC. The latest versions of Office for both platforms will now use a more common, refined Ribbon interface, although there are still platform differences. The former Elements Gallery of Office 2008 has "evolved" into a Ribbon that borrows from the Fluent UI Microsoft created for Vista and Office 2007. Office 2011 also bundles Communicator, a client app for working with Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 to provide multi-party audio and video conferencing, integrated with the corporate address book.Īfter giving the previous Mac and Windows versions of Office wildly divergent interfaces, Microsoft is now working to establish common ground. However, has been open to the public since January 2009, when it was launched alongside the desktop version of iWork 09. That should make it more like Google Docs than Apple's service, which is limited to document sharing and collaborative notes among invited users. Eventually the online suite will allow online document editing.

TELL IF MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC 2004 WAS UPGRADED TO 2011 FULL

Microsoft's Office Web Apps are currently limited to a private pool of beta testers, and full functionality is not yet enabled. The company's Office Web Apps can be used to upload documents to a Windows Live account or using a corporate SharePoint server. Office 2011 ties directly into the Office Web Apps (which are themselves still in beta) to enable users to share documents over the Internet, across platforms. Microsoft is also working to integrate its Mac desktop suite into its Office Web Apps initiative designed to compete with Google Docs. With this new feature you can keep track of your team with the Presence Everywhere feature that gives real-time status updates on who is working on the document directly in the application." "Co-authoring improves the processes of working together, removing the pain and frustration of multiple versions, lost edits, or even trying to set a time for the group to meet.

"The new co-authoring tools in Office 2011 give you and your teammates the ability to work on a file from Word, PowerPoint or Excel from different locations, brainstorm ideas, and stay on the same page regardless of time, geography or platform," Microsoft announced in a press release in February. What's new: collaboration and online sharing

Microsoft's Mac Business Unit, now headed by Eric Wilfrid, has refocused Office for Mac development to make the productivity suite more compatible cross platform, better looking, and better connected through plans to add co-authoring tools to enable collaborative editing of documents. It also shares more in common with the the look of Office 2010 for Windows, which is also currently in beta. Microsoft's forthcoming Office for Mac 2011 promises greater feature parity with its Windows version, including improved support for Exchange and reincorporated support for Visual Basic for Applications, a feature that was dropped in Office 2008.