Great, now when do we get the Tivo Series 4? They keep tacking on features to the woefully underpowered Series 3s.

You should ask someone there about what happened to NetFlix within MCE 7. The RTM version doesn't have it.

I have no faith in Entourage 2011. I'm convinced it'll be Entourage with a yellow icon. Unless they start doing true RPC (with transport encryption), Keberos/NTLM and RPC/HTTP (Outlook Anywhere)... it's not really Outlook. Bonus points for respecting a PRF.

Sorry, misread your post. Didn't see that you talked about Entourage EWS directly.

Snow Leopard (and Snow Leopard Server), actually fix alot of the AD/OD issues. I've been pissed as hell about alot of the problems we've been having with AD and Leopard, specifically its inability to work properly with a two domain deep forest, and in testing the last couple of betas and the RTM of SL, found that they all magically went away. The random DFS and MCX related issues just aren't there anymore. If you're running Leopard in an AD environment, it behooves you to update to SL as soon as possible.

Entourage with Exchange Web Services (just released as an addition to SP2) fixes a lot of these issues with Entourage (assuming you're running Exchange 2007 SP1 on your CAS/MB servers). Still isn't as "perfect" as OWA or Outlook, but its much better. Entourage still sucks in general, but at least it works.

Exchange 2007 is what the minimum specifications are, Exchange 2007 SP1 is what's required for it to run properly. It works just fine with the Exchange 2010 RC as well.

I've been really impressed with the Snow Leopard support for Exchange 2007 (and Cisco VPN). It's not 100% native (shared resource, appointments, etc are still a little off), it won't replace Outlook 2007 for day to day use, but for having my email/calendar open at home, it sure beats OWA on 2007 w/ FireFox or Safari. It's the same thing as the iPhone's EAS support; it's not the best in the world, but it really does it tie the whole package together.

As an IT department, we're recommending that users buy iPhone/iPod Touches at this point over Windows Mobile devices or Blackberries. Everyone in IT is running iPhones now that it does EAS. It may seem like a small thing, but EAS is a trojan horse for Apple.

WT guitar. Worth it for the manual SP deploy.

I think you may be presumptuous about his ability to get 1st, let alone 2nd, dates.