If you look at something like the new MacBook Air that is truly a beautiful object. If I stop drooling for a minute, the only reason I haven't acquired a MacBook Air is now that apple uses the Intel chipset why can't we have a version of Access as part of the Office Suite for the Mac.
FWIW, if I were you, I'd leave a note with MacBU letting them know that. No guarantee they'll respond but not telling them is certainly not going to make this a reality. I'd totally love to see it become a reality especially in light of how they resurrected VBA for Office 2011 (they had removed it in 2008 but apparently there were so much howling and gnashing of teeth they went back and put it back in. That surprised even me as I figured nobody would care about VBA on Mac. i was wrong.), but then again, given how Microsoft has been ga-ga over anything in cloud, they may not be so much interested in clients anymore.
Commercially, with similar Office offerings for both the Mac and PC, I personally think that the Ribbon caused more problems than switching users between platforms.
Have you seen Office 2011? They went and put in ribbon regardless. I'm still of the opinion that ribbon isn't really a better UI, simply different UI and with them keeping even native Mac toolbars, this makes for funky UI. At least one has choices, I guess.
Entourage I believe is becoming Outlook.
Indeed! Been using Outlook 2011 and while I'm happy to see improvement in integration with Exchange, it's pretty tender and may need some more maturing. At least it's definitely a step ahead for Mac Office, I think.