A few comments, based on initial impressions. I use a small set of Entourage's features, so I did not notice many changes in moving from the 2004 to 2008 versions. I appreciate the customizable toolbars, since that enables me to reduce visual clutter - I prefer to use keyboard commands for basic email operations. The new icons are more readable and prettier than the previous set. The purple color theme looks odd, however. I wish I could change it.
The readability of the Calendar seems a bit worse, to my eyes, than the 2004 version. In particular, in the month view, the text for the current month (in the grey bar above the calendar) is smaller than the text for the months that appears in the day squares. The first time I looked at the calendar, I thought it was showing the month of March, since that text was larger and bolder than the text showing April, in the grey bar. I'm seeing occasional redraw bugs in the Entourage browser window. Sometimes I see duplicates of items in the message list. Sometimes the items in the folder and view list (the leftmost pane) are incompletely drawn, or not drawn at all. I think the My Day window is really ugly. Fortunately, I don't use Entourage for managing my task list, so I disabled all the functions of My Day. Hopefully it will never pop up. The search features are more powerful than in Entourage 2004. But I'm disappointed that these functions are still split up, appearing in multiple locations throughout the user interface, in different windows, and with different UIs. I would prefer to see search consolidated into a single Find window, with a consistent UI, but with controls that adapted appropriately to context (when searching calendar, contacts, emails, IMAP server, etc.). I would also prefer to see search strings persisting in this window, so I don't have to re-enter the text if I close and reopen the Find window, or change the search target. -- Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
