Entourage 2008 Unsupported on many Hosted Exchange providers

I was reading about latest issue with Entourage 2008.  It is now unsupported with Hosted Exchange.  That’s bad for Entourage users wanting to have their contacts and calendars shared across multiple machines or between themselves and their virtual assistants.  I called my local Hosted Exchange provider who confirmed it…they dropped support for Entourage 2008.

Apparently the key synchronizing mechanism between Entourage 2008 and Hosted Exchange is now missing–MAPI (Messaging API) .  So Entourage users are now are going to find it more difficult than ever to share contacts and calendars.  I don’t think this was political.  I think it’s just very difficult to connect MAPI to MAC’s.  Microsoft will keep working on the problem, so maybe the Entourage 2010 will have the answer.