Microsoft Outlook 2010

Outlook 2010 from Microsoft is an integrated e-mail client, task management application, appointment calendar, and address book. Outlook allows you to keep track of all of your e-mail accounts, tasks, appointments, and contacts with ease. It delivers full support for Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers, as well as standard Internet POP and IMAP accounts.

Outlook offers extensive e-mail management tools. You'll be able to use multiple accounts, and organize messages into folders. You can even create rules that automatically filter messages to the correct folder, ensuring messages receive the appropriate attention. You'll be able to schedule appointments with colleagues, draft visually stunning e-mail, and add personal notes to contact information. Outlook gives you all the tools necessary to organize your daily life and to stay in touch with colleagues and friends.

Manage Multiple E-Mail Accounts from One Place
You can easily manage e-mail messages from multiple mailboxes. Synchronize multiple e-mail accounts from services such as Hotmail, Gmail, or just about any other provider to Outlook 2010. Improved connectivity with Microsoft Exchange Server supports the use and management of multiple Exchange Server e-mail accounts in one location

Manage Large Volumes of E-Mail with Ease
Conversation view in Outlook 2010 improves the tracking of e-mail conversations -- reducing information overload -- and helps you manage large amounts of e-mail with ease. Entire conversations can be condensed and categorized with a single click. And, new conversation management tools enable you to save valuable inbox space by turning dozens of e-mails into just a few conversations using the Clean Up feature. Or, use the Ignore feature to send the entire conversation to your Deleted Items

Customize Common Tasks into Single-Click Commands
Create and save custom actions in a new way with Quick Steps in Outlook 2010. You can save time by creating and defining multistep tasks that you can execute with a single click, including reply and delete, move to a specific folder, create a new e-mail to assigned groups, and more

Make Scheduling a Breeze
Conveniently and efficiently schedule appointments, share your calendar availability and manage your work schedule. With the E-mail Calendar feature, you can send your schedule to others so they can quickly find time for your next appointment. And, the new Schedule View provides a horizontal display of multiple calendars. New calendar management tools enable you to save frequently used groups of calendars so they can be quickly redisplayed whenever you need them

Search to Easily Find What You're Looking For
With Outlook 2010, you can easily sort through high volumes of data. The enhanced Search Tools provide you with ways to quickly find and manage large quantities of e-mail, calendar, and contact items

Create E-Mail Messages That Capture Attention
Dynamic graphics and picture editing tools are not just for Word and PowerPoint anymore. With Outlook 2010, you can grab your readers' attention by using compelling visuals such as pre-built SmartArt graphics, Office themes, and Styles. You also can more easily bring your ideas across to your readers by inserting and formatting screenshots in Outlook

Stay Connected to Your Social and Business Networks
Outlook 2010 is your hub for friends, family, and colleagues. Use Outlook Social Connector to get additional information about people, such as mutual friends and other social information, while staying better connected to your social and business circles

Ensure That Your E-Mail Messages Get to the Intended Audience
For business users, sending unnecessary e-mail messages to out-of-office contacts, accidentally replying to a large distribution list, or distributing confidential information outside the company are frequent concerns. With the new MailTips feature, you're alerted when you are about to send e-mail to a large distribution list, to someone who is out of the office or to individuals outside the organization

Receive Voice Mail Transcripts in Your Inbox
With Outlook 2010 and new technology in Exchange Server 2010, voice messages are automatically transcribed. A voice-to-text preview of a recorded voice message is sent along with the voice mail recording directly to your inbox. Access them from almost anywhere using your computer, Microsoft Outlook Mobile, or Microsoft Outlook Web App

Initiate Live Conversations from Outlook
Keep in touch with your contacts. By using Office Communicator, or your instant messaging application, Outlook 2010 provides presence and status information for those on your buddy or contact list. Hover over a name, see their availability and then easily initiate a conversation directly through instant messaging. With Office Communicator, you can start a voice call without leaving Outlook

System requirements:

• Processor Required
  500 MHz processor or higher
• Memory Required
  512 MB of RAM recommended for accessing Outlook data files larger than 1 GB
• Hard disk
  2 GB available disk space
• Media drive
  DVD or CD-ROM
• Display
  1024 x 576 or higher resolution monitor
• Operating system
  Windows 7, Windows Vista with SP1, Windows XP (must have SP3) (32-bit), Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0, or later
• Other
  Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 is the earliest version for using Exchange Server with Outlook 2010.