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Filed under: Macintosh, E-mail, Office, Microsoft

Goodbye Entourage, Hello Outlook for Mac

Well, it was bound to happen! During a press call today, the Microsoft Business Unit announced that they are working on a version of Microsoft Outlook for Mac OS X. The news comes in tandem with Microsoft providing further details about the next major release of Office for Mac.

Microsoft's Business Unit says the new application, which will replace Entourage when it is released in 2010, will contain a number of great features that will allow "increased productivity across platforms." Some of the highlights include:
  • Built on Cocoa. The application is being constructed from the ground up on Cocoa to make integrating with Mac OS a lot easier.
  • New Database. A high speed file-based database with support for backing up files with Time Machine and Spotlight searching.
  • Information Rights Management. Helps prevent sensitive information from being distributed to or read by people who do not have permission.
Outlook for Mac is being built on top of the features released today in the Entourage Web Services Edition including faster syncing and more support for Exchange servers. (If you're a current Entourage user, you can download the Web Services Edition here.)

With the release of OS X 10.6 right around the corner and promising native support for Exchange servers, it's funny to see Microsoft finally waking up and realizing they have got to do something to stay competitive.

Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh

Do more with Monolingual, but be careful.

Last time we had a peek at Monolingual, we talked about how you can use it to remove unnecessary language resource and localization files from the Mac OS X, to make more disk space and (ostensibly) improve system performance. But did you know you can also use it to zap PowerPC resources too? Indeed, if you zap the non-Intel architecture stuff using Mono, your Intel Mac will really scream.

Just be careful when you do it. Remove the wrong resources, and you won't be able to run Microsoft Office, one of the few "big" Mac apps that still requires Rosetta, the PowerPC-emulating subsystem of Mac OS X.

While Monolingual's creators claim the program is smart enough to avoid blowing up important PowerPC resource forks in universal applications and avoid altogether messing with PowerPC-only apps (a la MS Office), at least a few of us would beg to differ. We've heard from several that have had Entourage quit working because the wrong PowerPC architecture stuff got zapped during a Monolingual session. All boiled down, the point is this--Mono can make your Intel Mac scream, but don't do it on your work computer unless you're really, really careful.

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