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For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see Outlook Express.
Microsoft Office Outlook or Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft. The 2007 version is available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also includes a Calendar, Task Manager, Contact Manager, note taking, a journal and web browsing. It can be used as a stand-alone application, or can work with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, Exchange public folders, SharePoint lists and meeting schedules. There are third-party add-on applications that integrate Outlook with devices such as BlackBerry mobile phones and with other software like Office & Skype internet communication. Developers can also create their own custom software that works with Outlook and Office components using Microsoft Visual Studio.[1] In addition, Windows Mobile devices can synchronize almost all Outlook data to Outlook Mobile.
[edit] VersionsOutlook has replaced Microsoft's previous scheduling and mail program, Schedule+ and Exchange Client. Versions of Microsoft Outlook include:
Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000 could be installed in one of two configurations:
[edit] MacintoshMicrosoft also released several versions of Outlook for the Apple Macintosh; however, most mail features were disabled after Office 98. After Office 98, Entourage replaced Outlook on Mac OS X systems, although in 2001 Microsoft released Outlook 2001 for Mac to allow Classic users to access Exchange servers. Over the past few years, Microsoft has improved Entourage to provide Mac users with a Mac OS X-compatible Exchange client, though it does not have the entire functionality provided by Outlook. In 2010 Microsoft will revert to a Mac version of Outlook, built from the ground up using Cocoa. [edit] Outlook 2007Outlook 2007 were available in retail stores at the end of January 2007. A trial is available for download on Office Online.[5] New features in Outlook 2007 include:[6]
[edit] Internet standards compliance[edit] HTML renderingOutlook 2007 was the first Outlook to switch from Internet Explorer HTML rendering to Microsoft Word 2007 HTML rendering. This means HTML and CSS items not handled by Word are no longer supported. On the other hand, HTML messages composed in Word will look more or less as they appeared to the author. This most affects those publishing newsletters, because they frequently use intricate HTML and/or CSS to form their layout. For example, forms can no longer be embedded in e-mail. [edit] Transport Neutral Encapsulation FormatMain article: Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format Outlook uses a proprietary attachment format called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) when editing messages in Rich Text Format, utilizing embedded (OLE) documents or Outlook-specific features. It is usually present in a form of attached files winmail.dat or win.dat in the message. These files may also contain any regular files attached to the message. TNEF is not RFC compliant. In addition, no e-mail clients other than Outlook support it natively, although numerous tools for decoding TNEF files exist. [edit] Calendar compatibilityOutlook does not fully support data and syncing specifications for calendaring and contacts, such as iCalendar, CalDAV, SyncML and vCard 3.0. Outlook 2007 claims to be fully iCalendar compliant; however, it does not support all core objects, such as VTODO, VJOURNAL.[9] Also, Outlook supports vCard 2.1 and does not support multiple contacts in the vCard format as a single file. Outlook has also been criticized for having proprietary "Outlook extensions" to these Internet standards. [edit] Security concernsAs part of its Trustworthy Computing initiative, Microsoft took corrective steps to fix Outlook's reputation in Office Outlook 2003. Among the most publicized security features are that Office Outlook 2003 does not automatically load images in HTML e-mails or permit opening executable attachments by default, and includes a built-in Junk Mail filter.[10] Service Pack 2 has augmented these features and adds an anti-Phishing filter.[11] This release was well received, and regarded as the primary driver of Office upgrades among business users.[citation needed]. However, it still used Internet Explorer as its renderer of HTML content meaning any defects found in IE could be exploited by malicious emails. Outlook 2007 has switched to using the Microsoft Word HTML renderer to avoid this, although this change created its own problems. [edit] Outlook Add-insMain article: Outlook add-ins (Other possible and frequently used names: Microsoft Outlook add-ons, Microsoft Outlook plug-ins, Microsoft Outlook extensions, etc) Outlook Add-ins are small helping programs for the Microsoft Outlook application. The main purpose of the add-ins is to add new functional capabilities into Microsoft Outlook and automate some routine operations. Add-in also refers to programs where the main function is to work on Outlook files such as synchronisation or backup utilities. From Outlook 97 on, Exchange Client Extensions are supported in Outlook. Outlook 2000 and later support specific COM components called Outlook AddIns. The exact supported features (such as .NET components) for later generations were extended with each release. [edit] Outlook ExpressMain article: Outlook Express Outlook Express is an e-mail, newsgroup, and contact management application that Microsoft made available at no charge with older versions of its Internet Explorer web browser. Other than the similar name there is no connection between the two products and they originate from different divisions of Microsoft. While both offer access to POP3 and IMAP4 e-mail accounts, only Outlook offers client access (MAPI) to Microsoft Exchange. Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) does not include an e-mail client, however, and Windows Vista (which includes IE7) replaces Outlook Express with Windows Mail. In Windows 7, Windows Live Mail replaces Windows Mail. For Windows XP, Outlook Express has also been succeeded by Windows Live Mail. [edit] Importing from other email clientsCurrently, Outlook supports importing messages from Outlook Express and Lotus Notes. There are some ways to get the emails from Thunderbird: the first is to use a tool[12] that can convert a Thunderbird folder to a format that can be imported from Outlook Express. This method must be processed folder by folder. The other method is to use a couple of free tools that keep the original folder structure[13]. [edit] Migrating to other email clientsThere are numerous ways to migrate to other e-mail clients and exporting all the existing outlook data. Replacing Outlook with gmail account is one of the ways to do this[14] [edit] See also
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