Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of the public Beta of Microsoft Office 2010! Betas for Office 2010, as well as SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 are available for download at . This is an exciting and significant milestone for both the Office and Outlook teams, because it means that for the first time, anyone can .. more »

We are excited to announce the Outlook Social Connector! The Outlook Social Connector is a set of new features to help keep track of your friends and colleagues while enabling you to grow your professional network. The Outlook Social Connector is available now as part of the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta. The Outlook Social Connector (OSC) brings .. more »

On the Outlook team, we are frequently asked: what is the right way to use Outlook? Sure enough, there is no right way to work in Outlookbut, as the product team, we did design it with certain best practices in mind. Specifically, there are some best practices that make you more efficient at getting your job done while using Outlook, including: of .. more »

This week, the Outlook product team hosted a .pst file format interoperability event here on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. As we announced on the , our team plans to release a specification of the .pst file format to the public. This weeks interoperability event is part of a series of steps that we are taking to gather feedback from industry .. more »

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 delivered the first version of our Unified Messaging (UM) experience from the Microsoft Exchange and Outlook teams. UM enables you to receive voice mails and FAXs in your Outlook Inbox. You can listen to voice mail messages while in Outlook or on your phone. In Outlook 2010, weve added some cool new features to Unified .. more »

Meeting Requests with a Preview of your Calendar might have left you wondering what other improvements Outlook 2010 brings to creating and managing meetings. There are many, and I am glad to give you an overview. Heres how they can work for you. If an e-mail conversation gets to a point where a meeting would be more useful, just click to set up a .. more »

Microsoft Outlook now has its very own fan page on Facebook, which means you now have an easy way to get free tips about your favorite program, share ideas about the ways you use Outlook, and get answers to Outlook-related questions that you’ve always wanted to ask. The nice thing about joining the Outlook fan page is that it integrates nicely wi.. more »

A common problem with email searches is that they can return too many results. For example, entering someone’s name may return matches where the name appears in parts of the message’s body even though you meant to look for messages from that person. It can be also hard to enter other criteria to help narrow your search, such as whether it has an a.. more »

For everyone using the Outlook 2010 Technical Preview, there are a number of improvements for working with multiple Exchange accounts. My name is Andrew Sullivan, I’m a Program Manager working on Outlook and it’s my pleasure to highlight some of these improvements. Connect to more than one Microsoft Exchange account simultaneously. If .. more »

Earlier we’ve shown how Conversations and Quick Steps are designed to help you get through your email faster than ever before. Now, we’d like to show you another feature that will save you time whenever you receive a meeting request! Handling meeting requests usually involves two important steps – reading the meeting request and .. more »

This release, Outlook has adopted the Ribbon in the Inbox and all throughout Outlook. The purpose of the Ribbon in Outlook is to help you become more efficient in getting your work done – be that processing e-mail in your Inbox (Mail Home Tab), managing your Calendar (Calendar Home Tab), or doing work in Tasks (Tasks Home Tab). In designing .. more »

Hello everyone. My name is Alessio Roic and I’m a Program Manager on the Outlook product team here in Redmond. Today I will cover how to connect to your Hotmail accounts in Outlook 2010. In previous versions of Outlook, connecting to Hotmail accounts could be done using one of the following methods: Creating an HTTP account (also known as .. more »

Hello Office 2010 beta users! My name is Michael Affronti and I'm a Program Manager on the Outlook product team here in Redmond. We now have the opportunity to talk with all of you about Outlook 2010 and the amazing features we've been hard at work on over the last two years! Over the next couple months we'll be revealing a bunch of the changes and .. more »

Today, Microsoft is proud to announce the release of Office 2010 Technical Preview – our first official preview release of the next wave of Office PC, mobile and web-based productivity offerings. Of course, as part of this release, I’m personally excited to tell the Outlook community more about our latest work in Outlook 2010 – we .. more »

Outlook Connector is basically a Outlook Add-in that allows users to access their Windows Live Mail accounts, Gmail & Yahoo in Microsoft Outlook.Here are the download links: http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/F/8/DF8DC3A7-CF01-4F22-B965-DD8CD86411ED/OutlookConnector.exe .. more »

The new build is not a public beta. A public beta of Office 2010 is slated for later this year, as company officials have said previously. The promised July test build, which will be downloadable starting today, is of Office 2010 Professional — one of the five planned Office 2010 SKUs — only... more »

The old outlook connector will not work with new Office 2010 anymore. Get the new version.. more »

this is good news. I was waiting for this enhancement. hope windows live and yahoo will follow this soon.. more »

This morning we became aware of a Twitter campaign run from the website http://fixoutlook.org. This campaign is intended to provide Microsoft with feedback about our decision to continue to use Microsoft Word for composing and displaying e-mail in the upcoming release of Microsoft Outlook 2010. The Email Standards Project, which developed the .. more »

The Outlook team has recently been made aware of a serious bug / flaw with the recently announced Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, and as a result we wanted to provide the Outlook user community with additional details around this problem as well as information on how to address it. The installation of the Google Apps Sync plugin disables .. more »