Microsoft is finally releasing Outlook for Mac, announcing today that starting next year, the popular email application will replace Entourage inside the Microsoft Office Suite. For now though, Entourage lives on, with a new Web Services Edition, “so current Entourage users on Exchange will experience improved e-mail and calendaring support.” The download is available here . We’re more webmail people ourselves, but for those of you working in a more corporate environment (or simply preferential to Outlook), here are a few of the features that Microsoft is touting: Cocoa: Built from the ground up using Cocoa providing users with improved integration with the Mac OS 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 to access the content Microsoft calls the move “more than a name change,” but as Business Insider points out , it could also be just another reason to try and keep companies paying for Office. Meanwhile, we’re a lot more excited to try out Web version of Office 2010 , which will put Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the Web – for free. Tags: mac , microsoft , Outlook

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Microsoft Outlook for Mac is Coming