New Features in GroupWise 8

Enhanced Home View

• RSS Feeds
  Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format
  
• Home View Unlimited Columns / Panels
  Create customized dashboards to bring front-and-center the tools and information that help you be most productive for any given project or aspect of your job

Calendar

• Subscribe to external calendars (Google calendar, etc)
  Subscribe to external calendars and overlay your work schedule with important holidays, your favorite sporting events or anything else you need to keep on your radar, and get live updates
  
   
  

Contacts (Address Book)

• New interface
  With a look and feel that brings your contacts alive, a new card format lets you add photos and profile information such as profession, published calendar link, birthday and family member names
  
• Add Pictures
  Turn your contacts into relationships. With a look and feel that brings your contacts alive, a new card format lets you add photos and profile information such as profession, published calendar link, birthday and family member names
  
• History / Note Tabs
  Communication history and your notes with each contact also display so you can easily follow up on previous conversations

Web Access

• Improved performance and interface
  o Scrollable Item Lists: Displays all items in your mailbox, rather than 20 items at a time.
  o Time Zone Synchronization with your workstation.
  o Task list Folder – Replaces the old Checklist Folder
• Improved Calendar & Contacts view
  See your calendar come to life – With an improved graphical interface, color-code appointments so you can keep track of professional and personal commitments, and drag and drop meetings as your schedule changes

Mac OS X Client

• Improved performance
  
• More feature parity with the Windows client
  For more information on GroupWise Linux/Mac client!
  http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw8/gw8_userlinmac/index.html?page=/documentation/gw8/gw8_userlinmac/data/userlinmac.html#userlinmac

Other updates/fixes

• Auto-Save
  Auto Save is here!  Finally, you can rest easy knowing that any work you do in GroupWise will automatically be saved when your computer freezes.
  
• Second Time Zone
  A new second time zone feature makes it easy to manage appointments in different regions of the world
  
• Vacation Rule Wizard
  A simplified “Vacation Rule” gives you a no-hassle way to easily set up an auto-reply to tell others you are out of the office. With start and end options, you don't have to worry about turning off the vacation reply once you return
  
• Compose email in MS Word
  Leverage your favorite document editor to format your e-mails – Compose e-mail in Microsoft Word or Open Office so your e-mails look to others the way you intend