According to ars technica, Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has announced two new applications “as part of their long-term commitment to connect Mac users to Microsoft software and services.”

The two applications are the Microsoft Document Collaboration Companion for Mac Beta and Entourage for Exchange Web Services (Entourage EWS). The Document Collaboration Companion provides Mac Office users ways to… well, collaborate with both Mac and PC users online. According to Microsoft, it uses a Cocoa-based application that provides easier downloading/uploading capabilities to SharePoint Products and Technologies and Office Live Workspaces. The collaboration software will be available as a private beta in February and a final release later this year.

The second app, Entourage EWS, provides a “significant improvement to Entourage 2008″ that will allow users to sync their Entourage Tasks, Notes, and Categories with Exchange. This will be available as a public beta later this month, and the final release will be available for free sometime in 2009 for Office 2008 users.

Read the rest on ars technica.

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