The Office Outlook 2007 Software for Windows from Microsoft is a robust personal information management client. In addition to standard e-mail support, it allows you to schedule events and meetings on its integrated calendar, keep track of all of your contacts, and create a to-do list of tasks.
Outlook can work with standard POP3 and IMAP mail services, as well as with corporate Microsoft Exchange servers. When used with Exchange, contacts are stored on a central service. You'll also be able to view coworkers' calendars and schedule meetings.
Manage Your Time and Information
Quickly Search All Your Information
With integrated Instant Search, you can locate all the information you're looking for right from within the Office Outlook 2007 interface. Not only can you search by keyword through your information, but Instant Search also looks for those keywords within your e-mail attachments. For more directed search results, the Instant Search pane provides helpful criteria to narrow your entry
Manage Your Daily Priorities
Use the To-Do Bar to organize your day and manage your priorities. The To-Do Bar gives you a consolidated view of your calendar, upcoming appointments, tasks, and flagged mail, making it easy to act on your information
Get Better Results Faster Using the Microsoft Office Fluent User Interface
Office Outlook 2007 uses the Office Fluent user interface within the authoring experience, making composing, formatting, and acting on e-mail an easier and more intuitive experience. All of the rich features and capabilities of Office Outlook 2007 are now accessible and easy-to-find within the message
Visually Identify Information
Using Office Outlook 2007 Color Categories, you can easily personalize and add categories to any type of information. Color Categories give you an easy, visual way to distinguish items from one another, so it's easy to organize your data and search your information
Preview Attachments in One Click with Attachment Preview
Accessing e-mail attachments is often a multistep process with no easy way to gain quick insight into the content. With Attachment Preview, you can easily preview your attachments in one click directly from within Office Outlook 2007
Connect Across Boundaries
Create and Subscribe to Internet Calendars
Internet calendars provide a way to view and remain up to date on industry events or personal interest calendars and schedules. You can add a static Internet calendar, subscribe to a dynamic Internet calendar in Office Outlook 2007, and create your own Internet calendars to share with others
Send Your Calendar Information to Anyone with Calendar Snapshots
Need an easy way to share your calendar information with others? With calendar snapshots, Office Outlook 2007 creates an HTML representation of your calendar so you can share this information with anyone
Publish Your Internet Calendar to Microsoft Office Online
With Office Outlook 2007, you can easily create a new Internet calendar within Office Outlook 2007 and publish it to Office Online to share with others. Using Microsoft Passport credentials, you can invite a group of your coworkers, customers, friends, or family to view and work with your calendar so that everyone has the latest information
Fully Integrate with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Technology
With Office Outlook 2007, you can fully interact with information stored in Windows SharePoint Services technology anywhere, anytime. You can connect Windows SharePoint Services calendars, documents, contacts, or tasks with Office Outlook 2007 and have full editing capabilities, knowing that any changes you make to the information stored in Outlook 2007 can be reflected in the server version
Experience Increased Functionality and Collaboration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
When Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 are used in conjunction, users benefit from increased collaboration capabilities and security enhancements. Exchange Server 2007 provides the latest in dynamic mailbox connections, unified messaging features, and improved protection from junk e-mail
Send Text Messages from Outlook with One Easy Click
Outlook Mobile Service is a feature of Outlook that allows you to send and receive text and picture messages between Office Outlook 2007 and any mobile phone. Outlook Mobile Service also enables you to forward Outlook e-mail messages, contacts, appointments, and tasks to yourself or other people as text messages. You can even set Office Outlook 2007 to automatically send e-mail messages, reminders, and your daily calendar as text messages right to your mobile phone
Work with RSS Feeds from Within Office Outlook 2007
You can now fully subscribe to and interact with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds right from Office Outlook 2007, the most natural place to manage this kind of information. It's easy to get started adding RSS Feeds using the RSS Subscriptions home page within Office Outlook 2007
Customize and Share Electronic Business Cards
Electronic business cards are an easy way to create, customize, and share your information with customers, clients, or friends. You can add photos, company logos, or other personal information to your card so that the recipients have an easy way to identify your card
Improve E-Mail Control and Protection
Prevent Junk E-Mail and Reduce Exposure to Malicious Sites
The junk e-mail filter, introduced in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, helps prevent junk e-mail messages from cluttering your Inbox. In conjunction with the Office Outlook 2007 junk e-mail filter, Office Outlook 2007 has added ways to help protect you from divulging personal information. New anti-phishing features will disable threatening links and warn you about possibly malicious or phishing content within an e-mail message
Improved Protection and Security Enhancements with Exchange Server 2007
Together, Office Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 deliver anti-phishing technology in the new junk e-mail filter. Exchange Server 2007 acts as the first scan on incoming e-mail, determines the legitimacy of the e-mail message, and if applicable, disables links or URLs present in the e-mail message to help protect users
Control Distribution of Sensitive Work
Help protect your company assets by preventing recipients from forwarding, copying, or printing important e-mail messages by using information rights management (IRM) functionality. You can even specify an expiration date for the message, after which it cannot be viewed or otherwise acted upon. IRM functionality requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later running Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS)
Maintain Compliance with Managed E-Mail Folders
Exchange Server 2007 offers managed e-mail folders, a new approach to document retention, archiving, and regulatory compliance. Users see and interact with these folders in Office Outlook 2007 just like any other mail folder, but the messages stored within this folder gain retention, archive, and expiration policies defined by the administrator. With managed e-mail folders, users and administrators can easily comply with various forms of external regulation and internal company policies regarding message retention
Help Ensure E-Mail Legitimacy with Office Outlook 2007 E-Mail Postmark
Office Outlook 2007 E-mail Postmark helps ensure that e-mail reaching your inbox is legitimate and that e-mail sent by Office Outlook 2007 will be trusted by the recipient's client. Creating mail with E-mail Postmark uses new technology that Microsoft has developed as part of the ongoing effort to curb junk mail. This technology asks the sender's computer to perform a computation or puzzle, and then assigns this work as a token of legitimacy to the e-mail message. These e-mail postmarks are designed to make it very time-consuming and technologically detrimental for users to send mass e-mail like spam, yet they do not change the user experience of sending e-mail