The Microsoft blog attempts to make the best of the situation. It blames Apple for the "broken link between MobileMe and Sync Services," adding a hope that "Apple's changes will not impact very many of you." In the next breath, the blog adds that the new Outlook update will also not sync with Google (and other) calendars. The blog concludes with a vague suggestion that such support might come in "potential future updates."

Such support is already available in at least one other third-party product: . So you know it is possible to do. As such, I find it disappointing that, more than five months since the release of Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft could not do any better--especially for what Microsoft admits "has been one of our top feature requests."

On a related note: Will the new update add back other Entourage features that were dropped in Outlook, such as Redirect and Resend? We'll find out next week.