For love of Entourage
I love Entourage. For those of you that don’t know what it is, it’s the Mac version of Outlook. I love the app to death, and I’ve used it for years. The problem is that it’s starting to show its age, even though it’s been rock solid for me, even when using the old PPC version on my Intel Mac.
However, Microsoft recently announced their new Office 2008 Suite for Mac OS X. Since I bought Office 2004 back in, well, 2004, I used Word a handful of times, Excel maybe twice, and Powerpoint a total of zero times, if you don’t include the time I accidentally launched it by double-clicking on the wrong icon.
That leaves me in a tough spot. Do I drop the dough and buy the Office 2008 upgrade, continue to use the solid, but old Entourage 2004, or just abandon Entourage altogether and go with Apple’s Mail which comes with Mac OS X?
Microsoft’s biggest mistake right now is not having a trial version out there for people like me that are on the fence. I really don’t want to spend $230 when I know I’m only going to use Entourage. Microsoft should take a cue from Adobe – split up their apps. Adobe sells all their Creative Suite apps separately. I’ve bought Photoshop since version 6 and never buy or use any of the other apps. I don’t need them. Why can’t I just buy Entourage? Microsoft should realize that Mac users aren’t the same as Windows users, and Entourage would probably sell well on its own.
So, if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, think about unbundling Entourage and just sell it separately. Please?
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