Microsoft Office Outlook
Screenshot of Outlook 2007.
Developed by	Microsoft
Latest release	12. A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding a somewhat broader scope of Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product 0. 6212. 1000 (2007 SP1) / December 11, 2007
OS	Microsoft Windows
Genre	Personal information manager
License	Proprietary EULA
Website	Microsoft Office Outlook Homepage

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It can be used as a stand-alone application, but can also operate in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, Exchange public folders, Sharepoint lists and meeting time allocation. Microsoft Exchange Server is a Messaging and Collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS is part of Microsoft SharePoint, and runs on top of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS

Versions

Outlook replaced Microsoft's previous scheduling and mail program, Schedule+ and Exchange Client. Microsoft Schedule Plus (or Microsoft Schedule+ was a time-management software product by Microsoft, but was discontinued as part of Office when its functionality was incorporated Microsoft Exchange Client was a multi-purpose messaging product useful for managing e-mail.

Versions of Microsoft Outlook include:

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The version numbers follows the Office numbers.

The "Outlook Today" screen in Microsoft Outlook 2000.

Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000 could be installed in one of two configurations:

• Internet Mail Only or IMO mode: A lighter application mode with specific emphasis on POP3 accounts and IMAP accounts and including a lightweight Fax application. In Computing, local E-mail clients use the Post Office Protocol version 3 ( POP3) an application-layer Internet standard protocol The Internet Message Access Protocol or IMAP is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for E-mail retrieval the other being POP3

• Corporate Workgroup or CW mode: A full MAPI client with specific emphasis on Microsoft Exchange accounts. Messaging Application Programming Interface ( MAPI) is a messaging architecture and a Component Object Model based API for Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft also released several versions of Outlook for the Apple Macintosh; however, most mail features were disabled after Office 98. Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc After Office 98, Entourage replaced Outlook on Macintosh systems, although in 2001 Microsoft released Outlook 2001 for Mac to allow Classic users to access Exchange servers. Microsoft Entourage is an E-mail client and Personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8 Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Over the past few years, Microsoft has improved Entourage to provide Mac users with a Mac OS X-compatible Exchange client, though it does not have the entire functionality provided by Outlook. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently

Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007 was available in retail stores at the end of January 2007. A trial is available for download on Office Online^[1]. New features in Outlook 2007 include^[2]:

• A to-do bar added to the shell UI that shows a snapshot of the user's upcoming appointments and active tasks for better time and project management.
• Improved calendar views that display the tasks due below each day on the week view and supports overlaying multiple calendars.
• Integrated RSS aggregator
• 'Instant Search' through a context indexer based search engine with Windows Desktop Search
• Enhanced integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server
• New programmability features [1]
• Ability to publish calendars in Internet Calendar format to Microsoft Office Online or to a WebDAV server

Internet standards compliance

HTML rendering

Outlook 2007 was the first Outlook to switch from Internet Explorer HTML rendering to Microsoft Word 2007 HTML rendering. Windows Search (formerly known as Windows Desktop Search or WDS on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003) is an indexed Desktop Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS is part of Microsoft SharePoint, and runs on top of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP that allows users to collaboratively edit Microsoft Word is Microsoft 's flagship word processing software. This means HTML and CSS items not handled by Word are no longer supported. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure On the other hand, HTML messages composed in Word will look more or less as they appeared to the author.

This most affects those publishing newsletters, because they frequently use intricate HTML and/or CSS to form their layout. For example, forms can no longer be embedded in e-mail.

Calendar compatibility

Outlook does not fully support data and syncing specifications for calendaring and contacts, such as iCalendar, CalDAV, SyncML and vCard 3.0. iCalendar is a standard (RFC 2445 for Calendar data exchange The standard is sometimes referred to as "iCal" which also is the name of the Apple Inc Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV, or CalDAV is a standard allowing a client to access Scheduling information on a remote server SyncML ( Synchronization Markup Language) is the former name (currently referred to as Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization and Device Management) vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards Outlook 2007 claims to be fully iCalendar compliant; however, it does not support all core objects, such as VTODO, VJOURNAL. Also, Outlook supports vCard 2. 1 and does not support multiple contacts in the vCard format as a single file. Outlook has also been criticized for having proprietary "Outlook extensions" to these Internet standards.

Security concerns

One of Microsoft's goals is for the e-mail client to be easy to use. However, the embedded automation and lack of security features compared to competitors have been repeatedly exploited by malicious hackers using e-mail viruses. A computer virus is a Computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user These typically take the form of an e-mail attachment which executes on the user's machine and replicates itself by mass-mailing the user's or Exchange server's address list. An e-mail attachment (or email attachment) is a Computer file which is sent along with an e-mail Examples of such viruses are the Melissa and Sobig worms. The Melissa worm, also known as "Mailissa" " Simpsons " " Kwyjibo " or "Kwejeebo" is a mass-mailing macro virus, The Sobig Worm was a Computer worm that infected millions of Internet -connected Microsoft Windows computers in August 2003. A computer worm is a self-replicating Computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computer terminals on the network and it may do so without Other programs have exploited Outlook's HTML e-mail capabilities to execute malicious code or confirm that e-mail addresses are valid targets for spam. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure E-mail spam, also known as "bulk e-mail" or "junk e-mail" is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by The notoriety of the worms and other viruses has gained Outlook a reputation as a highly insecure e-mail platform.

Unix programmer Bill Joy has suggested that Outlook is insecure largely because it was written in C, making it easy to write programs to exploit it. Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer William Nelson Joy (born Nov 8, 1954) commonly known as Bill Joy, is an American Computer scientist. tags please moot on the talk page first! --> In Computing, C is a general-purpose cross-platform block structured He also believes the widespread use of Outlook is a major contributing factor in the proliferation of spam. ^[3]

As part of its Trustworthy Computing initiative, Microsoft took corrective steps to fix Outlook's reputation in Office Outlook 2003. The term Trustworthy Computing (TwC has been applied to computing systems that are inherently secure available and reliable Among the most publicized security features are that Office Outlook 2003 does not automatically load images in HTML e-mails or permit opening executable attachements by default, and includes a built-in Junk Mail filter^[4]. Service Pack 2 has augmented these features and adds an anti-Phishing filter ^[5]. In the field of computer security phishing is the Criminally Fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames Passwords

This release was well received, and regarded as the primary driver of Office upgrades among business users. . However, it still used Internet Explorer as its renderer of HTML content, a product whose security flaws are well documented and ongoing. Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer abbreviated MSIE) commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of graphical Some defects in IE can be exploited by malicious emails. Outlook 2007 has switched to using the Microsoft Word HTML renderer to avoid this - although the change created its own problems. Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003 is a Personal information manager from Microsoft, and is In addition, unlike other email programs Outlook does not allow views of HTML source code of messages in a straightforward manner. While this may encourage the purchase of additional security measures (and therefore promote the software industry), it prevents IT professionals from directly searching for malicious code when cookie-cutter solutions prove futile.

Outlook Express

Main article: Outlook Express

Outlook Express is a slimmed-down e-mail, newsgroup, and contact management application that Microsoft makes available at no charge, in conjunction with the Internet Explorer web browser, as an alternative to Outlook. Outlook Express is an e-mail / News client that was included with Internet Explorer versions Internet Explorer 4 Outlook Express is an e-mail / News client that was included with Internet Explorer versions Internet Explorer 4 A newsgroup is a Repository usually within the Usenet system for messages posted from many users in different locations Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer abbreviated MSIE) commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of graphical Other than the similar name there is no connection between the two products and they originate from different divisions of Microsoft. While both offer access to POP3 and IMAP4 e-mail accounts, only Outlook offers client access (MAPI) to Microsoft Exchange. In Computing, local E-mail clients use the Post Office Protocol version 3 ( POP3) an application-layer Internet standard protocol The Internet Message Access Protocol or IMAP is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for E-mail retrieval the other being POP3 Messaging Application Programming Interface ( MAPI) is a messaging architecture and a Component Object Model based API for Microsoft Windows. Outlook Express has been replaced with Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop, code-named Elroy) is an E-mail client from Microsoft 's Windows Live

See also

• Comparison of e-mail clients
• List of personal information managers
• Outlook Express
• Outlook Web Access
• Windows Calendar
• Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
• Comparison of office suites

References

1. ^ Try the 2007 Microsoft Office system
2. ^ Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 product overview
3. ^ Fortune Magazine interview with Bill Joy
4. ^ Microsoft Office 2003 editions comparison
5. ^ Microsoft 'Security at Home' website

External links

• Official Microsoft Outlook site
• Outlook Developer Portal