Postscript to Reinstall MS Office 2004 on Power Mac G5 Quad

[eric j]

Hi,

While searching for an alternative to Entourage I encountered Gnome Evolution.
It is not available since Novell abandoned it.
I find it strange that there are Open Source  integrated alternatives to Word, Excel and Power Point but none that include an Entourage equivalent.
Many have enquired after such on Google but the Open Source community seems to have other priorities.

FWIW

eric j

Ecclesiastes 9:11

[Xairbusdriver]

As far as I know, Entourage is simply the email reading/writing/sending app from Microsoft. It probably has functions (Calendar/Tasks/etc.) that are proprietary and it probably 'talks' to other MS apps better/differently than other mail apps. I don't have any MS apps and never used any on a Mac since the original Microsoft Basic on the original Macintosh!

OTOH, here is a link to download Entourage 2008 directly from "the horses mouth." Whether you have the required hardware or not, you'll have to verify. It looks like Tiger is the minimum OSX version.

Is there a reason you can't use Mail.app? As well as the included Calendar/Contacts/etc. ? And I'm sure you've come across OpenOffice, also.

[jchuzi]

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Dec 24 2013, 03:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

OTOH, here is a link to download Entourage 2008 directly from "the horses mouth."

You neglected to post the link, Jim. Maybe my puns have addled your brain?  

[Xairbusdriver]

Brain? BRAIN? We don't need no stinkin' "brayn"!

oh, you mean this? -><Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition> Uhmn... I'm not sure what that "Web Services Edition" part means. Does MS always have to have multiple editions of everything? Nor do I know if that's the version eric needs or can use.

I gotta go find my braen... brane... whatever!

[jchuzi]

Eric had been using Entourage 2004. I don't know if Entourage 2008 will play well with the rest of Office 2004.

[Xairbusdriver]

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Office 2004 for Mac
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Still don't know if this would be free. All the Entourage downloads seem to be updaters which wouldn't be much use if he doesn't still have the app.

Here's a list of all the free <updates, Service Packs, add-ons, etc. for Office 2004>. Surely one of them will restore Entourage to what he has? ...or not. Is it too late to request it from Santa?!

<Interesting read here.> Doesn't sound like it's worth the effort to get it!

[jchuzi]

I came across Apps for your new Mac: Best email clients. It might be worth reading for some suggestions. I use Entourage 2008 myself, mostly because I started in OS 9 with Outlook Express and Entourage (in its incarnations in Office X and Office 2008) are similar. I got used to its interface and it does what I want. I never used Entourage 2004 but I assume that it is pretty much identical.