ActiveSync is natively supported by Exchange (though Outlook preferentially uses Outlook Anywhere with Exchange servers) and is also supported by certain Web-based mail providers including Hotmail and Gmail.Īs a result, Outlook can directly communicate with Hotmail, a task that previously required a plugin. As well as Exchange (using both RPC and HTTP-RPC ), IMAP, and POP3, Outlook can now directly use Microsoft's ActiveSync API that's used by smartphones and tablets for push mail, contact and calendar sync, and so on. Outlook now supports more kinds of mailboxes than ever before. In addition to these visible changes, a few things have gone on behind the scenes. (We've already looked at the major design changes to the Office 2013 suite as a whole.)Įnlarge / The new People view amalgamates all your contact information.

The focus of Office 2007, 2010, and now 2013 is less on raw feature count and more on streamlining common tasks and making it easier to find the functionality you need. This is not entirely surprising: the Office applications are mature, many of them more than 20 years old, and they all do pretty much everything they'd ever need to. In common with the other applications in the Office 2013 suite, Outlook 2013 has been given a handful of new features and a fresh coat of paint. We may be more directly productive in Word or Excel, but it's Outlook that guides that productivity. It's where we manage the steady trickle of e-mail that drives and directs our work, it's where we plan our days, and it's where we keep all our business contacts.

Take Your Kindle To Work Day? First glance at Amazon's Whispercastįor many of us, Outlook is the most important part of the entire Office suite.

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