Outlook Social Connector
Written by Alan Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:00
On July 13, 2010 Microsoft released Outlook Social Connector. This brings support for Facebook and Windows Live Messenger directly into Outlook, allowing you to keep with you social network activities right in with you Email and calendar. This move makes perfect sense and probably should have happened before this, but better late than never.
This is compatible with Office 2003 and 2007 via a download. And, it’s available in Office 2010 through Microsoft Update. You will also need to download the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook. And, you will also need to download Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger.
Yes, I know, it’s a lot of downloads. Was there no better way?
You can follow along to see when new services are added by going to the Outlook Social Connector Partner Listing. You can also follow the Outlook Blog.
As of now, LinkedIn and MySpace are also available…if anyone out there still uses them (yes send your emails, I know I’ll get them). Twitter is not listed, but I have to think it’s coming soon.
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