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Microsoft adds Facebook access to Outlook 2010
SERIAL SECURITY THREAT Microsoft has announced that the next version of its Outlook email client will feature tight integration with social notworking sites.
Through Microsoft's introduction of the Outlook social connector middleware layer, back-end services such as Sharepoint, Windows Live, Facebook and Myspace will be able to push information directly to your inbox. Last year the Vole announced that its Outlook social connector would be released as part of the Office 2010 beta programme in partnership with LinkedIn, however now it seems that Microsoft has managed to sell the big social notworking sites on supporting its gossip delivery platform.
In an Outlook MSDN blog post, Microsoft announced its latest partners, trying to show it's serious about social integration in its popular but often security challenged email application. The blog post goes on to describe in tedious detail how you will be able to look up your contacts history to give you all sorts of questionably useful information, such as when you last interacted with your colleagues.
Unsurprisingly, the Vole is going to be using its Outlook social connector to push content from its almost non-existent social notworking site Windows Live direct to your Outlook email inbox. Vital information such as status updates, profile updates and pictures will be pushed into Outlook right along with messages that might actually mean something to you.
Integrating social notworking together with scheduling and email application has hit the headlines lately with Google's botched rollout of Buzz. While Microsoft is aiming its Outlook social connector at businesses, it should be acutely aware that privacy will have the potential to make or break its rollout of this feature.
For employees the Outlook social connector aims to show "real-time activity" for both social and business networks, so further discretion may be required to avoid privacy problems.
This isn't released yet, as Outlook 2010 will be coming out with the rest of Office 2010 much later this year. There's a beta programme going on at the moment, but Outlook social connector only works on the 32-bit version of Outlook at present. µ
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Outlook should focus more on developping its search-engine. Not every user has a third-party tool like lookeen so why adding a new feature, the Outlook Social Connector, (which is by the way not as secure as it should be) instead of improving the features which need to be improved.
joke yes intergrate outlook with facebook hmm like NO not everone want's to have his/her facebook on outlook like get a life
Great. Everything on the corporate IT network is auditable, so now the system can 1) See your Facebook ID and all the snide messages you posted about work, and 2) automatically generate a pink termination slip from payroll (perhaps displayed in real-time on your machine while the hard copy is on its way to your desk in your bosses hands.
Facebook was suffering from enough security problems already without adding the headache of tying it into a Microsoft product. Oops, hang on a sec, my boss is handing me something right now...
How many people here are all for Facebook being integrated with Outlook.How many use a social network(for free).Now I ask you, How many of you hang up on Telemarketers, Surveyors. So I ask you why do you give out so much information about yourself for free on the Social networks. Your information isn't private anymore.It now is being passed around to any company that wants to pay for it.
So if I come knocking on your door and say "Hey Bro, you don't know me' but can you give me all your info on your family, hell just email me your Family tree from Face book. I want to make some easy money. I'll pay you half of what Facebook charges for the same info.
If you people don't understand what is going on then this generation might as well be called the Lost Generation and the most gullible. Your already being written into the history books, now you have to decide what you want people in the future to remember you by.
Look likes i'm not buying 2010
You guys are a bunch of up-tight weirdos. Many companies, including mine, have facebook groups and we use it for business networking as well as social. We use IM to communicate during the day and the employees do their job just fine.
If you are that distrustful of your employees, I'm sure you are already locked down with facebook blocked and you do not even allow them to use a computer unsupervised, so your complaining is pointless.
Microsoft has yet again opened wide the door for hundreds of attacks. Your personal life will be owned by Microsoft and will be open sauce for all to see.
What a bunch of idiots! If you work for a company with even a half decent IT department they will simply turn the feature off. There are plenty of things you can install on a pc that are not work related. Installing them is one thing, using them is another. I've used office 2010 and honestly you hardly even notice the networking elements, you have to go looking for most of them. Get a clue and stop complaining about new features just because you don't like them. Don't forget office is not a business only package.
@ Ether Bunny.
If Michelle Obama was serious about childhood obesity, she could start by renaming Easter and promote health instead of supporting the candy industry and the same goes with Halloween and all the crap the kids bring home that night.
White House has great Vocerage thru Facebook. Getting into Easter Egg Rolling contest is Hard part. So heres Story:
annual White House Easter Egg Roll will be held April 5 with the theme of "Ready, Set, Go!" promoting health and wellness, according to the Obama administration.
The children's event will feature live music, sports courts, cooking stations, storytelling and the Easter-egg rolling.
All of the activities will encourage children to lead healthy and active lives and follow first lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" initiative, a national campaign to combat childhood obesity, according to the White House.
The event is held on the Monday after Easter on the White House's south lawn for children 12 and younger and their families.
Tickets will be distributed through an on-line lottery, allowing guests from across the country to participate in a tradition that dates back to 1878. The lottery will open Feb. 25-28.
The application process went online for the first time last year. However, the first-come, first-served format resulted in an overwhelming response that kept people from logging in or knocked them offline.
Full ticketing details can be found at www.whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll.
living in closet at palace isn't easy, ya know.
STeWie
Isnt "xobni" an outlook 2003/2007 plugin that lets you access facebook (in between others)?
Gates: Smithers! Let's use this "face" tome all the kids are talking about!
Smithers: Actually, my name is Ballmer sir...
yeah OOo offers EVERYTHING Office should... everything but an email application, whoops!
I second that. I tried OOo recently and have never looked back. It does what Office should do. Nothing more, nothing less.
Microsoft needs to stop taking bloatware advice from Nero and Symantec.
Forgot to mention, not only has Facebook built a marketing profile of you and your family and friends, likes dislikes, your education, and so on, by intergrating Facebook with Outlook they will finally connect it all with where you work and your income. Only thing left is your medical information, and they know everything about you. That is what all this ranting of Privacy concerns was all about this last year. The fact Facebook has and owns every bit of information about yourself and can sell it to anyone they feel like, for some cash and lots of it. As you can see Microsoft has just shown what all this Profiling is all about. Ive been saying this for years companies don't run servers and hire hundreds of people and give you something for free unless their is a payback for them. For most people the message goes in one ear and out the other. This is just about the last nail in the coffin concerning your privacy. From here on in if you are apart of any Social Network, they know who you are, who your family is. Where your born. Where you live. Now they will know where you work. If you use a cell phone, they all have built in gps, using Bing Maps, they will even know your where abouts any time because the telco's are selling your info in real time to other companies. Again, money is being exchanged on all this information that you so readily gave up for free. Have you gotten any payment for you information?
not only is the MS office over bloated, now it's including antiproduction application intergration.
MS should make basic apps, and offer add-ons, for those that want them.
They are creating reasons to move to OpenOffice.
I hope this fails, Someone at Microsoft Outlook is out of touch and doesn't know that mixing Business with Pleasure is usually cause for dismissal. When has updating Facebook at work become part of what you get paid to do, other then Human Resource checking to see if you worth hiring. I think that Outlook has to be taken out of Microsoft Office. Creating Marketing Profiles so you can make money off of ads is one thing, doing it in a corporate environment is another. Putting it another way, Social Networking when your being paid to work. If I was in charge of a Company I would be writing to Microsoft and threatening to go with Open Office if at all possible, or has MS Office become such a power house that Microsoft can now put loads of crap not related to a work environment in to their software with impunity. Sounds to me they have maxed out their ingenuity, and have decided to put more bloat ware into their products and call it an upgrade for selling purposes.