Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010?

jmke · 26th September 2010, 19:18

One of the new things in Outlook 2010 is the "People Pane." At the bottom of e-mail windows (both the inbox view and individual messages), the People Pane is a panel that can show recent e-mail from a contact, any appointments that you have with them, and a few other bits and pieces of information.

It's a neat little feature, especially when used in tandem with the Outlook Social Connector (part of Outlook 2010, and available as a download for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007). Making the Outlook Social Connector work is not quite as convenient as it should be; actual connections to social networking sites use providers that have to be installed separately—on its own, the OSC doesn't really do anything. But once you have the providers installed, the People Pane can show even more information—LinkedIn status updates, new photos posted to Facebook, that kind of thing.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...campaig n=rss

26th September 2010, 19:18	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010? One of the new things in Outlook 2010 is the "People Pane." At the bottom of e-mail windows (both the inbox view and individual messages), the People Pane is a panel that can show recent e-mail from a contact, any appointments that you have with them, and a few other bits and pieces of information. It's a neat little feature, especially when used in tandem with the Outlook Social Connector (part of Outlook 2010, and available as a download for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007). Making the Outlook Social Connector work is not quite as convenient as it should be; actual connections to social networking sites use providers that have to be installed separately—on its own, the OSC doesn't really do anything. But once you have the providers installed, the People Pane can show even more information—LinkedIn status updates, new photos posted to Facebook, that kind of thing. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...campaig n=rss __________________

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