14 DAY TRIAL // As it released the Outlook Social Connector on July 13th, 2010, Microsoft also made available for download two Outlook Social Connector Providers designed to enable customers running its email client to link to Facebook and Windows Live Messenger. Both the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger and the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook are now available for download from the Redmond company, offered free of charge.
Microsoft is providing similar descriptions for the two offerings, which is understandable considering that the two downloads essentially share the same functionality, but associated with different social networks. “The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger/Facebook allows you to connect your Windows Live ID/ Facebook account to the Outlook Social Connector and obtain information about your friends and colleagues. You can see status updates and recently posted files from your Windows Live/Facebook contacts,” Microsoft explained. “You can also use Outlook Social Connector to display a quick view of related Outlook content when you click on an email from a contact, such as recent e-mail conversations, meetings, and shared attachments to help you easily track your communications.”
With the advent of Office 2010, and in fact with the release of many additional other recent company offerings, Microsoft is demonstrating a strong focus on connecting its software and services to social networks. Office 2010 for example contains the Outlook Social Connector by default, being able to pull updates from Facebook, Windows Live, LinkedIn and MySpace. At the same time, the Outlook Social Connector is also available for download for older versions of the mail application, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003.
“The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider requires Microsoft Outlook Social Connector and the related update (KB983403) to be installed. If these components are not already installed on your machine, the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger will download and install the necessary updates from the Microsoft Download Center before completing the provider installation,” the software giant added.
Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger is available for download here.
Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook is available for download here.
Outlook Social Connector is available for download here.
Office Home and Business 2010 RTM Build 14.0.4760.1000 is available for download here.
Office Home and Student 2010 RTM Build 14.0.4760.1000 is available for download here.
Office Professional 2010 RTM Build 14.0.4760.1000 is available for download here.
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