Use Facebook with Microsoft Outlook

Now you can check and update your Facebook friends' status in Microsoft Outlook thanks to the Outlook Social Connector plugin

TipsMake.com - Now you can check and update the status of your Facebook friends in Microsoft Outlook thanks to the Outlook Social Connector plugin.

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With this application, Microsoft's effort is to create Facebook's inbox page in Outlook. This information was released last November, but has not been confirmed by Facebook.

This plugin update is now public, the tool now supports Facebook and Windows Live Messenger, in addition to previous LinkedIn and MySpace support. Twitter is still not among the list of supported social networks.

The Outlook Facebook application is downloaded between 9.7 - 21.7MB and works with Outlook 2010, 2007 and 2003 versions

' Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook allows you to connect your Facebook account to the Outlook Social Connector and provide information to fellow friends ' Microsoft said

" You can update the status and the information posted on the Facebook page, and you can also use the Outlook Social Connector to quickly display content on Outlook when you click on the e-mail from the address list as well." Most recent contact mail, share attachments help you keep in touch with friends easily "

There is no information about whether the Outlook Social Connector will officially support Twitter, but some built-in third-party developers can link these two programs.