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Email Prioritizer 'pauses' Outlook

News Microsoft Office Labs has released a prototype plug-in for Outlook that pauses incoming mails and rates them according to importance. Email Prioritizer, which will only work on the PC version of Outlook 2007, was unveiled on Monday.

Tags: labs, mails, incoming, emails

21 August 2008, 8:15

News.blog: Email autocomplete causes $1bn oopsie

News I've always been leery of Microsoft Outlook's autocomplete feature. Another suggestion comes from ClearContext VP Brad Meador, who recommends people tweak Outlook settings to delay sending email for a matter of minutes.

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7 February 2008, 9:26

Microsoft sales rise over $16bn mark

News Investors have also been keenly interested to hear what Microsoft has to say about its own outlook as well as its sense of the broader economy. Whatever form of capitalism it is that Microsoft is practicing, it seems to be working.

Tags: share, range, quarter, revenue

25 January 2008, 9:29

Mozilla to expand Thunderbird

News Microsoft's Outlook is tightly tied to its widely used Exchange email server software, unlike the more easily swapped-out Web browser, and much of the new email development is happening in Web-based services.

18 September 2007, 9:44

US games console ownership on the up

News Meanwhile, a study from market research firm IDC projects a sunny outlook for Nintendo's Wii console, a device that has capitalised on the growing demand for Internet-enabled games console features. Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3...

6 March 2007, 9:54

Games still not part of the Apple fun

News One development that has given Mac developers a rosier outlook is the switch to Intel's processors. While most of the hype, and increasing amounts of money, go to consoles such as Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3 or Nintendo's Wii, the PC...

16 February 2007, 10:26

Images: Microsoft Office, then and now

News Now: Wrapped with a Ribbon The new Ribbon toolbar in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook arranges major functions within a graphical, tabbed interface on top of the screen. Then: Send within Word Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2003 let you...

25 January 2007, 10:47

Apple finally answers call for iPhone

News We are focused on the 'pro-sumer' and business customer, where email, Microsoft Outlook and easy text entry for messaging and Web navigation is required," said Palm spokeswoman Marlene Somsak. Apple faces a different playing field with the mobile...

10 January 2007, 10:27

'Don't shout at the robot!'

News Instead, most of Aibo's programs centred around performing fairly well-defined tasks: playing MP3s or barking when an appointment came up on the owner's Microsoft Outlook calendar. Ugobe, however, hopes to change that next year with a cheaper, more...

22 November 2006, 9:43

Spoofing flaw uncovered in IE 7

News An earlier problem, disclosed a day after the IE 7 release, lies in Outlook Express, not IE 7, Microsoft has said. Security experts have found a weakness in Internet Explorer 7 that could help crooks mask phishing scams, the type of attack...

26 October 2006, 9:11

IE 7 launch has only minor issues

News There is a vulnerability, but in Outlook Express, not IE, Christopher Budd, a Microsoft security response representative, wrote on a corporate Microsoft blog on Thursday. Web browsers, including IE 7, can be used as the vector in an attack that...

20 October 2006, 9:30

Google and Microsoft vie for the Earth

News MSN Virtual Earth was also being integrated into Outlook and Windows Live Messenger, said Tao, and users would soon be able to overlay floor plans into the application. Microsoft was also represented at the event by Vincent Tao, director of MSN...

13 September 2006, 9:10

Wine lets Windows run on a Mac

News These are likely to include Microsoft Project, Microsoft Outlook and the Windows-only game Half-Life 2, White said. Meanwhile, start-up Parallels has released software that lets the Microsoft operating system run in a separate virtual machine with...

3 July 2006, 9:31

BT provides homes with virtual engineer

News Applications covered include Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Outlook Express and BT's Yahoo products. In a bid to become "the AA of IT", telecoms giant BT is offering a "virtual engineer" to sort out home users' tech problems remotely for £25 a go...

12 June 2006, 9:27

Photos: Inside Windows Vista beta 2

News For more details, see our sister site News.com's Word 2007 beta 2 gallery and Outlook 2007 beta 2 gallery. Amid speculation that Microsoft might again fail in its own timetable for the successor to Windows XP, the software giant on Tuesday released...

24 May 2006, 12:07