The new Microsoft Outlook 2010 comes with superb new features for an e-mail client. Among other new features, Microsoft opted to enable Outlook 2010 with Gmail and Facebook elements.
Conversation View:
Outlook 2010 can automatically group related e-mail replies into conversations, exactly like Gmail does. Conversation view saves now a lot of inbox screen and keeps e-mails better organized. Outlook 2010 offers also an “Ignore Conversation” feature. You can select “Ignore Conversation”, and all the subsequent responses to a particular e-mail message remain hidden in the conversation view, and will not display new e-mail alerts again.
Social Connector:
The Outlook 2010 Social Connector: The Social Connector can import social networking information into Outlook, giving you the possibility to view status messages in only one place. Microsoft also released a Software Development Tool for the Social Connector a while back, and you can write a personalized Connector to send status information to Outlook 2010. By this time, only LinkedIn and MySpace have opted to collaborate with Microsoft on this matter, Facebook is still to take a decision..
However, the Social Connector is just an import tool and you cannot update your status messages from within Outlook 2010. There are other limits also: can only imports status updates from users already in your Outlook contacts list, and only if those users signed up for a social platform using the e-mail address in your Outlook contacts. But maybe the Social Connector will improve over time.
The new Outlook 2010 is very easy to use than its older predecessors, due to great user accessibility improvements. With Outlook 2010 you will manage your communication tasks more efficiently than before.