I finally made the move to office 2011 after using 2008 for waaaay too long and I have to say it is definitely worth it. Despite having 2008, I didn’t use entourage, the mac version of outlook, because it was bulky, slow and it didn’t really do much properly. Being a mac user, I don’t use an exchange server as I’ve never been able to do it reliably, so I just used Mac Mail, which was a good light-weight client.
Office 2011 finally brings a full version of Outlook and I to say it’s great! It’s fast and also has seamless synchronisation with the mac address book which I use to synch with my gmail account (and thus iPhone). iCal integration isn’t ready yet apparently, but will come out later in the year, so for the time being I still have to use iCal, which synch’s with my google calendar (and then, again, with my iPhone).
Word is also better, with a more familiar ribbon interface than the altogether bizarre formatting palettes that came with 2008 – these probably worked well on a large screen desktop, but not on a 13″ MBP. It also seems to be faster than the slow behemoth that was the 2008 version.
It almost hurts to say it, but Microsoft actually pulled it out the bag with this one.
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