Outlook.com Welcome and Walkthrough Videos.

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Outlook.com  Welcome and Walkthrough Videos.

Besides the Hotmail changing to Outlook, started. before post, where you can read about how to make your first access, we are now posting two Microsoft videos: welcome and walkthrough of Outlook:

Outlook Blog

LinkedIn to come integrated with Outlook Social Connector in the next Office release.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

LinkedIn to come integrated with Outlook Social Connector in the next Office release.

LinkedIn announced on its blog this evening that Microsoft will support integration with the social network in the upcoming version of Office.

Users will be able to log in with their LinkedIn credentials in Outlook and see profile information like photos and status updates for anyone who emails them. LinkedIn data will also be added to contact cards in Outlook.

Microsoft Office is available as a free consumer preview now and is expected to formally launch early next year.

LinkedIn Blog:

One-click LinkedIn Integration with the new Office

We’ve been working closely with Microsoft for some time to make it easier for you to bring your LinkedIn network right into your Microsoft Outlook inbox experience.

Today, we’re really excited to share that the Outlook Social Connector for the next release of Office will no longer require an additional download to sync with LinkedIn. This means you just have to sign-in once with your LinkedIn credentials and immediately you’ll start seeing rich profile information, like photos and LinkedIn network activity for any connection that emails you. You’ll also see LinkedIn profile data surface when you view a People Card throughout the new Office experience.

We know many of you spend a lot of your professional hours working in email and we believe the integrated Outlook Social Connector for the new Office will help you be even more efficient and productive. Not only will you be able to keep track of what your LinkedIn connections are discussing and sharing, you’ll have easy access to photos, contact information and LinkedIn profile details right at your fingertips – without ever leaving Office. You can also read more about Microsoft’s connected social experiences here.

We’ve also been working with Microsoft on a new LinkedIn for Outlook application for the new Office app store, which packs some new functionality and features for today’s busy professionals. We’ll be talking more about that in the coming weeks.

Source: LinkedIn

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PC World: Microsoft Puts Facebook into Your Outlook

Microsoft Puts Facebook into Your Outlook

Slacking off at work just got a little easier with Facebook integration for Microsoft Outlook.

Image courtesy of MashableUsers of Microsoft's e-mail program can now look at their contacts' Facebook status updates, photos and wall posts in real time, and Outlook also pulls profile pictures to associate with each Facebook-connected contact.


As the world's most visited site, Facebook is the crown jewel of Microsoft Outlook Social Connector, a plug-in that blends social networking with e-mail. Microsoft debuted the plug-in with LinkedIn contacts in February, and added MySpace to the mix in March.


For now, Facebook is a one-way street on Outlook. You can read status updates and look at photos, but you can't "Like" anything or post updates of your own. Microsoft told Mashable that it plans to let users push data to social networks in the future, but didn't mention Facebook specifically.


Outlook isn't the first mainstream e-mail service to get social networking integration. Yahoo Mail began pulling in Facebook status updates in March, and Hotmail joined the trend with Facebook and MySpace support in May. Google's Gmail charted its own path by integrating Google Buzz. I think it's a natural progression for communications; the same blending of social networking, e-mail and text messaging is happening on smartphones.


Outlook is a bit different because of its popularity in the office. Roughly half of all U.S. companies ban Facebook and Twitter at work, according to a recent study by IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology. For those employers, the idea of a Facebook-connected Outlook might not go over so well.


But Mashable paints a scenario in which social networking integration could provide an advantage: If you're connected on Facebook with clients, you can better relate to them by keeping up on their activities and interests -- provided you can pull it off without acting creepy.