Microsoft touts Mac-Windows collaboration. Microsoft on Tuesday said it would launch new Mac software later this year that will let Office 2008 for Mac users collaborate with people running the Windows version of the application suite. The program will make it easier, for users to download and upload documents to enterprise servers running SharePoint, Microsoft's browser-based collaboration platform, or to Office Live Workspaces, the free online service that offers similar functionality. Document Collaboration Companion also will provide Mac-based tools to let Office users check in and check out shared documents. Microsoft touted the upcoming software, and a planned makeover of Entourage, the Office 2008 for Mac e-mail client, as its first moves toward providing some of the same kind of services to its Mac customers that those running Windows already enjoy. and Entourage Exchange Web Services and the Document Collaboration Companion lets Mac Office users connect with counterparts on a PC.
Entourage will also be beefed up this year, promised Microsoft, so that it's more equivalent to Outlook, the Windows e-mail client, in enterprises. As part of that upgrade, which Microsoft will offer free-of-charge later this year to Office 2008 users, it is transitioning Entourage to Exchange Web Services (EWS) for connecting to Exchange mail servers, and dropping the currently supported WebDAV. The changes will also include new support for synchronizing tasks, notes and categories in Entourage via an Exchange server, and A public beta for Entourage EWS will be released later this month, Microsoft said..
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