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Outlook is the premier communications tool to stay connected with colleagues, friends, and family. Your email messages, even from multiple accounts, are in one place. Connections and communication also happen on websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Windows Live. Through these sites, you find new contacts and reconnect with old ones. You can share who you are, what you think, what you are doing, and what you like or don’t like. So, it makes sense that you can now add your friends and colleagues to these sites and get their activities from within Outlook.
Today, we are announcing that you can use the Outlook Social Connector with Facebook and Windows Live. Our partners LinkedIn and MySpace are also releasing updates for their providers. All of the latest providers appear on the provider page.
We are also releasing the Outlook Social Connector for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Office Outlook 2003 in the following languages:
Arabic, Brazilian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Thai, with more languages in the upcoming months.
You can the download Outlook Social Connector for your language at the Microsoft Download Center.
Lastly, we are also releasing an update to the Outlook Social Connector for Outlook 2010. This update is distributed through Microsoft Update.
To learn more about the Outlook Social Connector, see this introductory article.
With today’s updates:
You can add friends and colleagues to Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Windows Live, directly from the Outlook People Pane.
When viewing a message from someone, you see real-time updates from his or her activities on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Windows Live. You see information that your friends and co-workers have made public on those sites, as long as the email address they are using to communicate with you has been added to their account settings on the social network.
We believe that the information you share through social networks is a matter of personal choice. You should decide whether to share very little, or reveal a lot about yourself. You might decide to share information only with your friends, or share details with everyone. You might decide to have a strong division between personal networks and professional ones, or between social networking and email. The Outlook Social Connector respects what you decide to share through social networks. Other people using the Outlook Social Connector can only see information about you based on what you have made public to them on social networks and the email address in your profile on the social network.
You can review our privacy policy here. You can also review those of our partners by visiting their sites to understand each option and help make your personal choices to protect your privacy.
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How is social networking and Outlook working for you? We look forward to your comments.
Randy Byrne, Program Manager, Microsoft Outlook
Alessio Roic, Program Manager, Microsoft Outlook
Paco Contreras Herrera, Group Product Manager, Microsoft Office
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@Patrick:
the Facebook and Windows Live Messenger provider are available in x64 format - you can download them from the provider list page. We continue to work with partners to expand the list of x64 providers available, so stay tuned for future announcements. Thanks Alessio Roic
Program Manager - Microsoft Outlook
In reply to LHnTX. I experienced the same issue and discovered Outlook was off-line.
I have to agree with Thomas. First of all I would have liked to see a feature to assign the facebook profile pictures to the contact pictures (automatically of course) as well as other important data such as birthdays, etc. Second a feature is missing where you can manually add your facebook contacts to your Outlook adress book. For instance: I have a lot of friends of whom I do not know the email adress, so they are not listed in Outlook. Overall it's a pretty good idea and I'm looking forward to the hopefully upcoming improvments.
When I try to connect to Facebook I receive "invalid user name or password". I have verified my login information and have tried using both my email address and Facebook "username" with the same result. Anyone else have this problem?
The Facebook connector is quite disappointing as I had my hopes up after using the absolutely excellent LinkedIn connector. My main gripe is that the Facebook connector does not import your Facebook contacts - if it could do this then I would be singing its praise all over the internet as an amazing use of Facebook - as it stands it is pretty useless. I guess though that this is actually Facebook wanting to keep its users inside its "walled garden" and not the fault of Microsoft. Similarly, the Windows Live connector did not meet my expectations either. It will only import the contacts from my "Windows Live Messenger network" (useless to me) and will not sync with my much larger list of "Windows Live Contacts" as the free and supposedly inferior Windows Live Mail does flawlessly. Actually, I only used "Windows Live Contacts" in the first place because Windows Live Mail was so good at interfacing with them - why can't Outlook?!!
Something is wrong with the OFFICE.COM website - NONE of the links work and the download for facebook doesn't work either from the MS download site. Please check and alert the office.com folks...
I'm using Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010, after I install OSC, I can't find it in Outlook. If I create another profile with POP3 account only, it show up. Does there any problem with Outlook 2003 and Exchange?
Is there any way to get help getting the WL and FB connections working? I believe I had everything working before I upgraded to a new laptop with Outlook 10/Windows 7. Now nothing works under 64 bit, and if I downgrade to 32 bit, I can only get 32 MySpace and Linked In to work. I would appreciate any and all help. jenniferaiacono@live.ca
Hi Jaiaicono, I would suggest asking your question in our help forums at http://answers.microsoft.com. People there may be able to help troubleshoot your issue. Josh Meisels, Outlook Program Manager
There's a problem when you use - for example - the Facebook and LinkedIn providers when it comes to pictures.
If a contact is on both Facebook and LinkedIn, YET does not have a pic on LinkedIn, the silhouette LinkedIn pic is shown by default instead of the available pic on Facebook. This, of course, makes no sense (bearing in mind that the providers are listed as Facebook THEN LinkedIn). It would seem the code is working though the providers and takes the pic from the last one - even is there is no pic.
A little re-programming here would be useful !!
I installed the LinkedIn connector just fine, but when I try to install the Facebook one I get this error message: "The expected version of the product was not found on the system" (KB983403) Any help?
I'd like to be able to sync the FB or LI data to my Address Books (contact merge / sync).
I have outlook 2010. I am *tired* of finding the OSC for 2010 or actually finding a straighforward answer to the question - "Do we have an up and running verion of the OSC for Outlook 2010?" Yes/No? If yes, where?
I'm getting an error while setting up the "OSCFB-x86-en-us" Facebook Connector. Prompts to download and install the latest version of connector and stops then saying "The installation of the provider couldn't be completed." and the same turns if we deny the updates. Any help!
I am running Windows 7 with Outlook 2010. I installed the Social Connector (32 bits) and it installed, but when I click the green plus sign next to one of my contacts and try to log into my Facebook or LinkedIn account. I get the error message "Could not connect to server." How can I get this function to work?
My email is "taylorpc@flash.net" Thanks.
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