Considering that I use Outlook to interact with people (or used to — I went Gmail last year), it seems absurd that the application has never allowed a people-centric view of email communication — until now, that is. Last night, the Microsoft Outlook team announced the Outlook Social Connector (OSC), an add-on that’s available now as part of the Office 2010 beta (see all stories on TechMeme). It adds a new ‘People Pane’ where you can see:
- Picture name and title of the sender
- History of recent emails with that person
- Attachments you’ve shared and any upcoming meetings
- Activity feeds from social networks they belong to
Pretty cool, huh? This is the sort of must-have feature that, as soon as you hear about it, you wonder why it wasn’t added years ago…
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