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Microsoft Outlook 98 Low Encryption Release
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March 1998
Microsoft Outlook 98 is Microsoft's premier messaging and
collaboration client. It combines the leading support for Internet
standards-based messaging systemsùincluding Microsoft Exchange
Serverùwith integrated calendar, contact, and task-management
features. Outlook makes it easy to: Get connected, communicate and
share information with others. Work seamlessly with Microsoft Office
97, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Internet Explorer 4.0.
Organize and view information.
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Outlook 98 helps users communicate with others through e-mail,
telephone, group scheduling and real-time NetMeetingÖ conferencing
software. Outlook helps users share information with others through
Internet connectivity, Microsoft Exchange Server public folders,
electronic forms, and as a component of customized collaborative
solutions. Outlook integrates and organizes all this communication
and shared information in one application.
Microsoft Outlook 98 is an important product upgrade that is
arriving at a time of significant change in the way individuals and
organizations work together. Microsoft has responded by delivering
an innovative integrated electronic mail, information management,
and collaboration product. Outlook 98 contains new technologies that
enable the use of the Internet for collaboration, information
sharing, and business solutions. It also continues its role as the
client fully optimized for the fast-growing number of companies who
rely on Microsoft Exchange Server for scalable, advanced e-mail,
calendaring, and collaboration features on their business critical
intranets. Outlook, teamed with Microsoft Office and Microsoft
Internet Explorer, provides an integrated suite of tools for
personal productivity and for managing all your personal, group, and
Internet informationùfrom e-mail, contacts, and schedules to Web
pages, favorites, and channels. This functionality is essential to
building virtual teams within an organization and in connecting
organizations to their customers in powerful extranet business
solutions. Outlook 98, Office 97, Internet Explorer 4.0, and
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 are innovative technologies that work
together to bring you the power of Internet communication and
collaboration. Following is a summary of the key product features
and benefits of Outlook 98 and the design philosophy behind each.
Connect, Communicate, and
Collaborate Effectively
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Users need to easily install client software, import settings and
data from existing e-mail products, and get connected to the e-mail
and collaboration server providers they choose. Outlook 98's ease of
use makes users productive, with integrated e-mail, group
scheduling, and collaboration capabilities. Communicate and
Collaborate on the
Internet.
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Outlook 98 provides industry-leading high-performance support for
Internet mail, directory and calendaring standards, including POP3,
IMAP4, S/MIME, NNTP, LDAP, vCard, vCalendar, and iCalendar, making
Outlook98 the best choice for Internet mail, news and calendaring
users. Users can exchange rich information and web pages using HTML
formatted e-mail, send special customized HTML Stationery e-mail,
share contact information with business-card-like Internet "vCards",
and schedule meetings using shared calendars and sending meeting
requestsùall via the Internet.
Premier Client for Microsoft Exchange Server.
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Outlook 98 builds upon Outlook 97's role as the client fully
optimized for the fast-growing number of companies that rely on
Microsoft Exchange Server's scalable and advanced e-mail,
calendaring, and collaboration features for their business critical
intranets. Outlook for Windows« 3.x and the Macintosh editions are
available for Microsoft Exchange Server users and provide baseline
messaging and calendaring interoperability. Outlook 98 interoperates
with Outlook 97 and earlier versions of Microsoft Mail, Microsoft
Exchange client, or Schedule+ without requiring an Exchange Server
upgrade.
Setup Wizard.
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Outlook 98's setup wizard automatically detects appropriate
installation options and imports existing accounts, profile
information, folders, and personal address books from earlier
versions of Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, or Eudora,
making it easy to install Outlook 98 and upgrade to it from other
e-mail products.
Outlook Today.
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Outlook 98 gives users the power to manage e-mail, calendar, and
task information in one place. The innovative new "Outlook Today"
view gives users a customizable "day-at-a-glance" summary of
upcoming meetings, tasks due, and number of e-mail messages received
overnightùall without switching between windows.
Rules Wizard.
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Makes it easy for users to create rules to automatically folder,
delete, highlight, forward, and flag incoming and outgoing e-mail,
enhancing e-mail management and prioritization. Features are also
included to identify and deal with "junk" e-mail or "spam."
Flag for Follow-up.
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Allows users to flag e-mail messages or contacts to help prioritize,
schedule, and track required follow-up actions (such as reply, read,
or call back). Users can easily sort by Follow-up Flags to track
completion.
AutoPreview and Preview Pane.
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Outlook 98 makes reading e-mail fast and efficient. AutoPreview
automatically displays the first three lines of each e-mail message
so that users can quickly determine which messages to read or
delete. The Preview Pane displays the complete contents of any
selected message without opening a separate window.
Voting and Tracking.
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Outlook has made it easy to manage votes, including providing
customizable Voting Buttons that will appear in the message header.
Outlook automatically tallies votes and tracks whether messages have
been delivered, read, or deleted without being read.
Message Recall.
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This allows a user to recall a message sent over the Internet or
using Microsoft Exchange Server to another user of Outlook, as long
as the recipient has not opened or moved it. Users can also replace
a sent message with another substitute e-mail message.
Meeting Planner.
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The meeting planner makes it easy to schedule group meetings (either
face-to-face meetings or real-time conferences with NetMeeting). The
planner helps users choose attendees, check available times
(including free/busy times shared on the Internet), and send meeting
invitations. It will even automatically pick the next available time
for all attendees.
Contact Manager.
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From the Outlook Contact Manager, users can dial a phone (and keep a
record of the call), send e-mail or a fax, jump to a Web site, use
the Microsoft Expedia travel service web site to automatically
download a map of a contact's address, or initiate a real time
conference with Microsoft NetMeeting. Collaboration Applications.
Users can easily share information by publishing a contact list or
calendar to a Microsoft Exchange Server public folder. Using Outlook
98 and Microsoft Exchange Server, developers can create customized
information routing, discussion, tracking and line-of-business
applications specifically tailored to the needs of an organization.
A growing number of solution providers and third-party software
vendors develop collaboration applications for
Exchange and Outlook
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Integration with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, and
Internet Explorer Customers continue to expect consistency and
integration throughout all the Microsoft applications. Microsoft
designed Outlook to integrate seamlessly with the rest of Office 97,
Microsoft Exchange Server, and Internet Explorer 4.0, so that users
can be organized across applications and easily share information
throughout their organization.
Office
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Users can take advantage of the Outlook Contact Manager and Word
Mail Merge integration. Users can attach Office files to any Outlook
item (such as appointments, tasks, contacts or e-mail). Outlook
Journal can be used to find an Office file (or Outlook item) based
on when the user worked on that file, not on what it was named or
where it was saved. Outlook automatically notes when a user works on
any file. Users can drag and drop between Outlook items and Office
applications. Users can create tasks from Word, Microsoft Excel, or
PowerPoint«. Users have all the great WordMail features and
formatting of Word 97 in Outlook e-mail, either as their default
editor, or by easily turning Word on or off as the e-mail editor.
Users share the consistent Office title bars, command bar, pull-down
menus, shortcut menus, tabbed dialog boxes, toolbars, icons, and
right-mouse clicks to leverage learning and ease of use.
Microsoft Exchange Server
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Microsoft Exchange Server enables a number of unique advanced e-mail
features, such as redirected replies, message expiration, and
deferred delivery. Microsoft Exchange Server lets users grant
delegate-access privileges to their co-workers so that others can
monitor their e-mail, calendar, contacts and tasks. Microsoft
Exchange Server is the comprehensive group-scheduling engine behind
Outlook, enabling the viewing of free/busy time, calendar details,
and shared calendars. The tight integration of Outlook with
Microsoft Exchange Server allows custom Outlook and Exchange-based
collaboration applications to utilize Microsoft Exchange Servers for
storage, synchronized offline folders, directory, routing,
server-side agent scripting, forms libraries, and Web access
services.
Internet Explorer 4.0
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Users can start Outlook 98 from Internet Explorer 4.0 to
send/receive e-mail and create contacts. Outlook 98 shares the HTML
rendering and News Reader of IE 4.0 to give users the most advanced
Internet support available. Outlook can be used as an alternate way
to view and navigate to Internet Explorer Favorites.
Organize Information in One Place
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Microsoft learned from users that they want a well-integrated e-mail
environment so that they can be more organized and in control of
their daily activities. Outlook lets users easily organize and
manage all of their e-mail, calendar, contact, and task information
using a single integrated application.
Work in an integrated environment.
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Outlook is designed to manage critical information all in one place:
e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks. The innovative new "Outlook
Today" view provides a customizable "day-at-a-glance" view in
Outlook that summarizes today's Mail, Calendar, and Tasks. This view
can also be displayed on the Windows Active Desktop.
Find and Organize Tools.
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These innovative features let users quickly find messages,
appointments, tasks, or other information using easy Web-style
searching. They also guide users with plain English instructions
through applying Outlook's powerful e-mail organization features,
including folders, views, and rules.
AutoCreate.
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E-mail messages often prompt users to create a task on their task
list, add the sender to their contact list, or schedule a meeting.
With AutoCreate, users can simply drag and drop an e-mail message
into their Outlook 98 Tasks, Contacts, or Calendar, and Outlook
automatically creates a new task, contact, or meeting request with
no retyping of information.
Stay organized anywhere.
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A complete, portable solution, Outlook 98 lets users take
information on the road. When used with Microsoft Exchange Server,
synchronized Offline Folders allow the user to work with
server-based information whether online or offline. Outlook98
automatically synchronizes the Offline Folders in the background
while online and offers filtered synchronization. Outlook also
synchronizes with all leading palmtop devices, including the new
Pocket Outlook in all Windows CE devices, Palm Pilot, and the Timex«
DataLink watch. In addition, Outlook 98 includes extensive printing
formats for users of paper day-timers.