Microsoft says Office for Mac will have Outlook

REDMOND: Microsoft says the next version of its Office desktop software for Apple's Mac computers will include Outlook.

It will be available in time for the holidays in 2010. The current Mac version of Office includes Entourage, a program for sending e-mail and organizing appointments and contacts. The 2010 version will replace Entourage with Outlook, the standard on Microsoft's Windows computers.

Microsoft's Mac unit is building the software from scratch, so Outlook will work with the Mac's backup and hard-drive search features.

Apple recently said the next version of its Mac operating system, called Snow Leopard, will include support for Microsoft Exchange Server, the behind-the-scenes software that makes Outlook work