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• Medical firm avoids Exchange nightmare with outside help

  International medical vendor Mediq was expanding in a big way by acquisition and needed a standard email platform across its business, but the project's cost and the complexity of doing it alone was so daunting that the company called on outside help that costs it less in the long run.

• Microsoft Outlook pulls in Facebook status updates

  You can now check your Facebook status updates and add friends within Microsoft Outlook, thanks to an update to the Outlook Social Connector plugin.

• Microsoft eases access to Outlook data

  Microsoft revealed on Monday two open source projects intended to improve interoperability with Microsoft Outlook files and even enable easier migrations from Outlook.

• Google Apps sync for Outlook gets mixed reviews

  Nine months after Google daringly launched a sync tool to link its hosted Apps collaboration and communication suite with arch-rival Microsoft's Outlook PC software, results have been mixed.

• Google fixes bug affecting Apps sync tool for Outlook

  Google has found a fix for a bug that affected Google Apps' Sync for Microsoft Outlook by preventing some e-mails from being downloaded from Gmail servers to the Outlook program on end-users' PCs.

• MySpace extends social network to Microsoft Outlook

  Now under new management, MySpace is looking to reinvent itself and rise like a Phoenix from the ashes. The once dominant social networking site fell from nearly 70 percent of the social networking market, to only 30 percent in less than a year, and was plummeting on the verge of extinction.

• Outlook harnesses social networking

  Microsoft is transforming Outlook from an e-mail client, or messaging platform, to a social networking hub with the addition of social connectors. The integration of social networking is a huge benefit for Outlook users, and may even help drive adoption of Outlook as others look for a tool to help sift through the social network noise.

• LinkedIn Quick Tip: Integrate LinkedIn With Outlook

  Integrate LinkedIn With Outlook

• Microsoft pulls covers off Project 2010

  Calling it the "most significant" upgrade in a decade, Microsoft today revealed details for its project management application, Project 2010.

• As Exchange grows up, it plays more strategic role

  Long an important product for Microsoft, Exchange Server going forward will play even more of a key role in the company's plan to extend its collaboration applications to mobile devices and other software platforms.

• Outlook separation anxiety holds back Google Apps

  In its bold march to become a credible collaboration and communication suite for businesses, Google Apps has encountered a frequent roadblock that has proven more vexing than expected to circumvent: good old Microsoft Outlook.

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  Microsoft rebuffs Twitter protest over Outlook's rendering of HTML e-mails

  Showing again the power of Twitter for quick social organizing, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday was forced to defend itself against complaints that its market-leading Outlook e-mail program wreaks havoc on rich-HTML e-mails.

• Google warns of issues with its Outlook sync tool for Apps

  After promising that people can use Outlook "seamlessly" with the Gmail component of its Apps suite, Google is toning down those expectations.

• Google's Outlook interface a weak nod to corporate reality

  While Google is in hot pursuit of an enterprise e-mail business, the announced support this week for Outlook as a client interface for Gmail does little to distinguish the vendor from other players chasing top-dog Microsoft.

• Google unveils plug-in to marry Outlook, Gmail

  Google Tuesday unveiled synchronization technology that supports Microsoft Outlook as the front end to Gmail, giving users an option to scrap Exchange on the back end while allowing users to keep their familiar desktop client.