Eileen Brown writes about the new Office Communicator: you know, its the little things that make such a difference. Like the fact that my status automatically turns to busy – (a blue no entry sign) when my Outlook calendar is marked with a meeting Bingo! Wow, what a nice feat...

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I need a bot, transport whatever, which can query either my exchange server or my running copy of Outlook (via a small desktop app) and then send my meeting notifications via Jabber. Why is so that a) I don’t have to run Outlook just for my calendar and meeting notifications (which is probably about 70% of my current use for Outlook) and b) it can use my Jabber presence indicator to see ...

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This was actually announced last week, but doesn’t seem to have been picked up quite as much as I thought it would have. Lookoutsoft, the makers of the absolutely excellent search plugin for Outlook have been bought by Microsoft (did someone say embrace and extend?). If you didn’t know already, Lookout was the only way of searchin...

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I hate Outlook. I don’t think I mention this nearly enough.

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I think Anil Dash is missing a trick. Anil says Platforms, not programs. But why? The most widely-known application-as-a-platform of recent years is probably Mozilla, and has that succeeded in real terms? No.

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