search.subscribe.share in outlook 2007

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is meant to provide users with an easy way to monitor multiple sources of news, blogs, and other content which has headline-style delimitations and is updated frequently. It is an open, publicly-defined and developed format...

Some of you may have seen this on the IE team blog and should be as excited as I am... http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2005/12/14/503778.aspx Internet Explorer 7 and the Windows RSS Platform have now officially adopted the orange RSS icon...

This post is coming to you courtesy of Can Comertoglu, our Outlook PM in charge of our Internet Calendaring experience. The new Internet Calendar functionality falls under the Sharing experience for Outlook 2007, so I've asked Can to take a few posts...

One of our dedicated MVP's, Patrick Schmid, reported in his post here that: If you provide an RSS feed for your blog, then there is a good chance that you use FeedBurner. FeedBurner is a great tool to get accurate statistics on how many subscribers...

Our motto here in Outlook land is "Sharing Means Caring". Okay, not really, but it's still a good virtue, and one we've grasped in several locations in Outlook 12. :) What do I mean? Let's say you're subscribed to a really interesting RSS feed, like...

This is very, very cool. We all love Hotmail and now you can connect it FOR FREE to Outlook. Check out the details from my fellow program manager Jared Brown: This week, Microsoft released a new beta of an add-in that allows people to access Windows...

The volume of content on some RSS Feeds can be very high. When you add more RSS Feeds to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you might discover that the size of your Microsoft Exchange mailbox (mailbox: Location on a Microsoft Exchange server where your e...

Internet Calendar Publishing in Outlook 2007 I talked about Internet Calendar Subscriptions in Outlook 2007 in an earlier post. I would now like to talk a bit about actually publishing Internet Calendars. Internet Calendar Publishing in Outlook gives...

With the Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh now live on the web , I wanted to take a few minutes and talk about the best way to get your RSS feeds up and running after you upgrade. The B2TR installation is actually a patch that installs on top of the original...

Duplicate items are an RSS aggregator's worst enemy, and many of the dedicated folks who are using Outlook 2007 Beta 2 know we did not do a great job in that build of handling the many ways that dupes can occur. Since the Beta 2 build we've made numerous...

There were some great questions in the comments to my previous post about Internet Calendar Subscriptions in Outlook 2007. I wanted to answer those before I go on to talk about Internet Calendar Publishing in Outlook 2007. - Can "However, the downloaded...

Search before Outlook 12 Search in Outlook 2003 had many issues that prevented users from taking full advantage of it as a primary means of interacting with their mail data. The Find UI was not visible by default, and most users did not know how...

All of the user research and testing data was carefully applied to the design of the new Outlook 12 Search experience. The goal was to stay true to the tenets mentioned earlier: simplicity, speed, and always being available. The key to the new search...

A few days ago I posted on how to use AutoArchive in Outlook 2007 to help manage the size impact of your RSS Feeds on your Exchange mailbox. One of the downsides to using AutoArchive is that there is no easy way to apply a defined set of parameters to...

Problems facing RSS right now RSS presents the user with an entirely new way of retrieving, monitoring, and following up with web-based information sources. The technology is still in its infancy, as two competing standards (RSS and ATOM) compete to...

Many of you have posted great comments and questions on our RSS work. I wanted to take a few minutes to answer some of them. If you have any more please let me know. Is there any way to import feeds from OPML into Outlook 12? Yes, it's built...

There are several cool ways you leverage Outlook's folder management and search infrastructure to improve the way you view RSS feeds inside the application. They range from the simple, like creating subfolders, to the complex, like using search folders...

Our research and usability studies helped us determine where the bottlenecks where in the current search process for our users, and helped us focus our new design on a few key tenets. The first and most important is that of availability, where Outlook...

Hey folks Long time no blog; we’ve been heads down here at Outlook Headquarters as we start thinking what’s next after Outlook 2007. At the same time a portion of the team has been working feverishly to release the Outlook 2007 Performance Update...

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/04/14/contact.domain.name.ap/ “To help people manage all their contact information online, the Internet's key oversight agency is considering a ".tel" domain name. If approved, the domain could be available...

Over the next several posts I'm going to focus on explaining some of the methedology, user research, and design models that drove our implementation of Instant Search in Outlook 12. I'm going to start by briefly discussing the concept of information overload...

There's been some conversations going on about how Outlook is handling duplicate RSS items and what that means for bloggers. Sorry for the confusion – what we've done in Outlook 2007 recently around duplicates is to reduce the erroneous amount that occur...

Figure 11. The GridView Theme has Been Added to the App_Theme Folder Rename the GridView Theme to DataWebControls (right-click on the GridView folder in the App_Theme folder and choose Rename). Next, enter the following markup into the GridView.skin...

Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 is a native component of Vista, and is being shipped separately as a system component for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users. WDS is a system service that indexes file, email and other content in order to provide...

As a long-time lover of gadgets, music, movies, and all things in between, as well as being the proud owner of a TiVo, Media Center, and multiple PMD (portable media devices), I think the battle between consumers, artists, and production companies about...