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MS names date for Mac Office 2001
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Microsoft has at last said when it will ship Office 2001 for the Mac: just under a month from now, on 11 October.
The suite will be re-branded Office:Mac on launch, as will its component apps, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. New to the suite is Entourage, which brings Outlook's email and PIM functionality to the Mac version of Office for the for first time. Think of Entourage as a single-user oriented version of the more workgroup-oriented Outlook.
Entourage should synchronise fully with Palm handhelds. And given Psion's re-found interest in the Mac market, so will the upcoming new version of MacConnect, which links Macs to Psion's Revo, and Series 3, 5 and 7 handhelds. Psion recently told us it was waiting for Outlook for the Mac to ship first, but we hope the company actually means Entourage. It's going to be a bit of a git if you can't link your Psion to Office, otherwise - not a move guaranteed to win Mac users over to the Psion platform.
Microsoft is working a separate Mac version of Outlook 2000, codenamed Watson, aimed at companies keen to integrate Macs into their Exchange Server 5.5-based infrastructures. Microsoft has yet to say when Watson will ship.
Office:Mac will ship for $499 in the US - upgrades from Office 98 will cost $299. ®
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