Last Wednesday, Microsoft announced that the company would officially launch Facebook (and other social networks) into their Outlook 2010 Beta product with Outlook Social Connector. Following the previous week’s announcement about Google Buzz, and rumors that Facebook would be launching their own email product, we found out details about Outlook’s new integration. The service will let you “view friends’ activities, photos, and status updates within Outlook—as well as grow your network by adding friends from the same view”.

Outlook Social Connector

The Outlook Social Connector (OSC) brings social views of your colleagues and friends right to your Inbox. As you read your e-mail messages, glance down at the new People Pane to see the picture, name, and title of the sender. A rich, aggregated collection of information about the sender is included.

Both Facebook for Outlook and MySpace for Outlook will be available later this year as our official release of Office 2010 approaches.

Outlook Social Connector Video

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