Outlook.com left preview just a few weeks ago as the world's fastest growing email service. Millions of customers continue to join Outlook.com daily. We have been humbled by some fantastic reviews and today, we wanted to share more about two features that are customer favorites: the ability to share just about anything in a single message using SkyDrive and the ability to keep your address book automatically updated with info from Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. We think these features give you a better experience and embody the way modern email should be designed to meet the needs of modern people.

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With Microsoft Outlook 2010, you can stay connected by sending and receiving text messages (SMS). For instance, you could send a quick note to a co-worker saying you're running late for a meeting. You can also forward your upcoming Outlook schedule or important e-mail messages as a text message directly to a mobile device.  This post shows you the two ways to set up text messaging in Outlook.

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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 Outlook’s ability to search any and all of your Outlook data. When a Google Apps user installs the sync plugin for Outlook , the plugin modifies a registry...

Microsoft has just released the Beta 2 version of the Outlook Connector – an add-in that puts your Windows Live Hotmail data in Outlook. While Beta 2 does not introduce new features, it provides several improvements aimed at making synchronization with e-mail, contacts, and the free Windows Live Calendar Beta service more robust. If you want to know more about the benefits of connecting to the Windows Live Calendar service, I recommend you read the original Outlook Connector Beta 1 blog post...

Sometimes the Send button can backfire. Have you ever sent a mail to the wrong person by mistake? Have you ever sent an email and then realized a second too late that you forgot an important point, or could have worded things more carefully, or even misspelled something obvious, like your own name? Luckily, in Outlook you can set up a safety net for the Send button. On the Outlook team, we call it “delayed send.” You may find that it saves you a lot of potential embarrassment. Delayed...

An organized mailbox is critical to getting work done, especially if most of your day involves working with Outlook. However, spending more time organizing your mailbox means there’s less time to spend on real work – thus it’s important to find a system that is both simple and efficient. In this post I will talk about one way you can triage mail using categories and Search Folders. Keep in mind that no single e-mail management method is ideal for all work styles; this is just one method of many and...

Uninstall the OSC Beta that you installed from the Download Center . To uninstall, in Control Panel, go to Programs and Features control panel (Windows 7, Vista) or the Add or Remove Programs (Windows XP), click the entry for Microsoft Office Outlook Social Connector 32-bit , and then click Remove . Uninstall the old version of the OSC that was included with Outlook 2010 Beta. In Microsoft Windows, click the Start button, and then click Control Panel . Then, do one of the following: Windows 7 and...

Conversations in Microsoft Outlook 2010 are an effective way to manage your e-mail messages. We hope you enjoyed the videos that we shared with you. If you are a power user of Outlook, you might want to tweak some settings to make Conversations work even better for you. There are four options available to customize conversations: · Show Messages from Other Folders · Show Senders above the Subject · Always Expand Conversations · Use Classic Indented View . To see these features, on the View tab, in...

Hi, I am Roby Kurian, Product Manager for Outlook. In 2007, I graduated from University of Washington (go Huskies!). While in school, I used Outlook to send and receive messages with the UW’s email system, but I never made use of Outlook’s rich features. I wish I knew then what I know now. I want to introduce some features in Outlook 2010 that can make your life as a student easier. Manage multiple mailboxes with Outlook Chances are you have more than one email account — a school...

The Outlook team is proud to announce the release of the February Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007, a series of performance and reliability improvements that have been consolidated into a single package for our customers. Since the release of Outlook 2007 we have been working hard to improve performance, and this update represents the latest in our continued efforts to build a better experience for Outlook users around the world. To get started and install the update right away visit the download...