Apple Thoughts: Office for Mac to Include Outlook

"Hell has frozen over: Microsoft's Mac Business Unit says that the next version of Office for Mac will arrive in 2010 with a genuine Outlook client and better Exchange support."

According to a Microsoft rep, "Because it's designed for the Mac, it will be different from Outlook for Windows," Wilfrid said. "But it will be fully compatible. For instance, Outlook for Mac will support Information Rights Management, which controls access to sensitive documents." Using Cocoa framework and a different database design is supposed to improve the integration with Time Capsule as well. I've never been a fan of Outlook anyway, too many other choices that I think work better, but regardless of that, Microsoft has issued a press release if you are interested in all the changes.