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Microsoft Outlook or '''Outlook''' (full name '''Microsoft Office Outlook''' since Outlook 2003) is a Personal Information Manager from Microsoft , and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an E-mail application, it also provides a Calendar , Task and Contact Management , Note Taking , a Journal and web browsing. It can be used as a Stand-alone Application , but can also operate in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, public folders and meeting time allocation. VERSIONS Outlook replaced Microsoft's previous scheduling and mail program, Schedule+ and Exchange Client . Versions of Microsoft Outlook include: (release dates are for U.S. product launches) The version numbers follows the Office numbers. Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000 could be installed in one of two configurations:
Microsoft also released several versions of Outlook for the Apple Macintosh ; however, most mail features were disabled after Office 98. 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. 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. 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. 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. Outlook Express is replaced with Windows Mail in Windows Vista . INTERNET STANDARDS Outlook is an integrated application for email, calendaring, tasks, contacts and much more. However, it does not fully support other calendar programs for calendaring or contacts such as ICalendar , CalDAV , SyncML and VCard 3.0 . 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. Also, for Outlook 2007, Microsoft has replaced the more standards-compliant Internet Explorer -based HTML editing/viewing engine with the one from Microsoft Office Word 2007. Outlook Express is being replaced by Windows Live Mail. Outlook encourages Top-posting by placing the cursor above the quoted text. A proponent of Bottom-posting has created an application known as Outlook-QuoteFix to change this default to bottom-posting. 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 Hacker s using E-mail Viruses . 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. Examples of such viruses are the Melissa and Sobig Worms . 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 . 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. He also believes the widespread use of Outlook is a major contributing factor in the proliferation of spam Fortune Magazine interview with Bill Joy . As part of its filter Microsoft 'Security at Home' website . This release was well received, and regarded as the primary driver of Office upgrades among business users. NEWEST RELEASE Outlook 2007 was available in retail stores at the end of Jan 2007. A trial is available for download on Office Online Try the 2007 Microsoft Office system . Features include Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 product overview :
HTML rendering Outlook 2007 was the first Outlook to switch from IE HTML rendering to Microsoft Word HTML rendering (Word 2007 in Outlook 2007's case). This means HTML and CSS items such as the following (many of which are insecure, as implemented by Internet Explorer) would no longer be supported: :HTML tags
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The net impact for anyone publishing a newsletter that uses HTML form elements within emails, is that the forms will no longer display: all form elements will be replaced with square brackets. This is a major issue for publishers and small businesses, many of whom have used this technique extensively. With this switch, Outlook 2007 became even less HTML standards compliant than Outlook 2003. Simple static HTML like the following will not display properly (just the text is displayed; the bars are not rendered):
Green and red bars: :Many more HTML and CSS items {Link without Title} SEE ALSO
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