Microsoft has released a download called Microsoft Outlook Social Connector which will work with Facebook. This will allow you to access all your friends and information streams through your Outlook. This will also allow you to see the latest streams in the bottom of your email.

Overall they are trying to make this as integrated with your Outlook as possible. If you are interesting in trying it you can download it through Microsoft. Once installed it will work with Outlook versions 2003, 2007 & 2010.

Add to that a connector for LinkedIn and you are starting to have a powerful tool that many business owners are already using. You can download the LinkedIn connector.

If you have any questions when installing this or want to know more about plug ins, don’t hesitate to contact a computer technician.

Office 2010 Initial Reviews

This week we got our copy of Microsoft’s Office 2010 and we upgraded a field laptop Friday night. This laptop runs Windows 7 Professional and was running Office 2007 Service Pack 2. The installation itself was very straightforward but it did take over 30 minutes total as components like the Outlook Connector were upgraded.

Initial impressions of the new look is that it looks more like Office 2003 with the Office 2007 toolbars. The biggest obvious change is that the 2007’s Office Button is gone. In its place is the File tab which will be more familiar to long-time Office users but combines some of the features of the Office Button.

The biggest change in the user controls that most people will notice is Outlook 2010 toolbar. Many of the features have been moved andwe’re sure that’s going to throw a lot of users.

We continue to make notes over the next several weeks and will have further reviews for you in a few weeks. If you have any questions, call or email us (info@setms.com) and we’ll be happy to help.