Offers Entourage 2004 for Mac as a free download on signing up for the hosted Exchange service.

Intermedia.NET, a provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange and web hosting services, today announced that it is the first Exchange hosting provider to offer Entourage 2004 for Mac as a free download to customers.

According to the company, Entourage 2004, which is similar to Outlook 2003 for PC, lets Mac users use Microsoft Exchange as their advanced email and collaboration server. Any company signing up for hosted Exchange with Intermedia.NET can download Outlook 2003 or Entourage for Mac at no charge.

"Many industries use the Mac as a standard office computer and wish to take advantage of Microsoft Exchange's productivity-boosting features," said Michael Choupak, CEO of Intermedia.NET. "Now that Intermedia.NET offers Entourage as a free download, companies using Macs can sign up and get started with a cost-effective hosted Exchange solution in a matter of minutes."