Mega Monday Updates

r0d3nt writes "Microsoft has released their promised 10.1.4 update to office. With it comes support for Exchange via Entourage. Get the update , and read about the system requirements." RottenApple writes "The latest iPod EU firmware update has been seen floating on the Gnutella and BitTorrent Networks. A working hack is indicated by the Time Zone appearing as US Pacific after running the updater." An anonymous reader writes "TheLittleAppFactory is pleased to today announce the latest version of our iPod Manager for Mac OS X, iPodRip 1.5, which boasts many new features, such as the ability to play songs right from your iPod's hard drive and playlist support, as well as a slick new interface, faster importing and improved iTunes integration." It costs $7.

Comments

Re:iPod

[CptChipJew]

As well, according to some people on VersionTracker, this Office update doesn't truly support Exchange:

"like IMAP, SMTP, WebDAV and LDAP - so no real Exchange support! I think it clearly shows how they think about their own standards! And if our Exchange Server 5.5 would [have] them all enabled, then I wouldn't really need Entourage at all!"

Re:Is it just me

[gryphokk]

Actually, the Office update is a signif piece of news, at least for those of us who have been trying to migrate to OS X in a corporate environment.

No known Mac mail client can make use of the features of the Exchange server, except a buggy old Outlook that doesn't render html, graphics, or support calendar and scheduling events -- and only runs in classic.

While it's not realy propellorhead stuff, it's a major and much-anticipated upgrade for some of us End Users. And it took /. to let me know it's available, even though I've been sittin on pins & needles for it.

One less application to run in Classic!

10.1.4 Office x.X Entourage update issues

[grunherz]

Actually it seems that the new Exchange support for Entourage is pretty weak. Seems LDAP, IMAP et al needs to be turned on on the exchange server for it to work. This was a work around for previous incarnations of Entourage, so it's a pretty lame update.

I'm sure more folks will be able to articulate this better in further posts.

I for one, am totally disheartened by it.

just a heads up.

Re:iPod

[CptChipJew]

Not true. As long as a computer isn't set to automatically sync and iPod (where you manually add files), you can play the songs on any computer.

When I bought my PowerBook, I plugged the iPod in and all the songs were playable.

Re:Let them know you're not happy!

[gryphokk]

Done!

I sent the following message to the link you provided:

After waiting for months for your upgrade to Entourage, and its promise to work with Exchange servers, I am very dissappointed to find that it still does not function well in a corporate environment.

The IM&T department at my company tolerates my mac on the network, but provides me no support. Therefore, getting them to enable IMAP and/or SMTP is out of the question.

So far, my only working option remains to operate a PC just to receive properly formatted mail at my corporate address.

Please provide full mac compatibility with Exchange servers

Thanks for the link!

Re:Office X Update Problem

[Anonymous Coward]

This can happen if you are using a "pirated" serial number, as newer versions of the updates apparently contain databases of numbers known to be floating around on the 'net. While I am certainly not saying that you are pirating software, the use of one of these serials might be a possible reason.