Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta Released

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Office Outlook Connector

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With Outlook Connector Beta, you can use Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Windows Live Hotmail or Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages and contacts for free! Calendar, tasks and notes can also be accessed and managed in Outlook for accounts with a paid subscription. [GD: Emphasis added]

Outlook Connector Beta enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:

• Read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
• Manage your Live Mail Contacts.
• Use advanced options for blocking junk e-mail messages.
• Manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.

With a paid subscription, Outlook Connector Beta enables these additional features:

• Manage, share, and synchronize your Windows Live Calendar in Outlook.
• Access your Tasks and Notes.

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What I'm interested to see is if I can now add Calendar reminders (in the past version I couldn't, it said it wasn't supported...). I live by my calendar/appointment reminders and not having them easily created killed me (well, got me in trouble a couple times  ;)

I'll be downloading and playing with this tonight or tomorrow.

 

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