William, Thanks for your reply. Being in the position of switching to a new computer, I don't want to bother installing an app whose future is clearly limited. I appreciate that Entourage won't "suddenly stop working" (duh), but I'd rather not work with an app that will clearly be abandoned before long.
For those with industry insight: What might be the reason for MSFT to create the original Outlook for Mac, abandon it, create Entourage, abandon it, and then return to Outlook again? What's the thinking behind it, and how do the 2 pieces of software differ? Or is this simply a case of rebranding Entourage with a more popular name? Thanks, Mark On Aug 6, 2010, at 12:02 PM, William Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/6/10 9:42 AM, "Mark Falchook" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Please forgive me for coming in late to this topic, but I'd like some >> clarification: >> >> Does the release of Outlook for Mac mark the official end of life for >> Entourage? And if so, is there a seamless database converter/translator >> between the two? > > Hi Mark! > > Expect that replies to your questions may take a while. People answering > questions are users just like you and me. > > The release of Outlook marks the end of development of Entourage but not > support. Microsoft's life cycle support policy > <http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy> states that it will cease all > support (updates, security patches, bug fixes, etc.) after certain > milestones. Usually, those milestones are the release of a product to > replace it plus a certain number of years or a certain number of years > after the product was first launched. > > Office 2008's support life cycle ends April 9, 2013 > <http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=12853>. That doesn't mean the > product will stop working. It has no built-in time bomb. It does mean that > you're on your own at that point if you want to continue using the > product. Once we reach that date, the only help you'll have is from other > users on forums, newsgroups and mailing lists and maybe even old Microsoft > knowledge base articles. > > Hope this helps! > > -- > > William Smith > > > -- > YouTalk mailing list > List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html > List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] > To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
