Outlook

Late in July, Microsoft unveiled Outlook.com, a new Webmail service designed to take the place of the aging Hotmail.

Is there anything more amusingly anachronistic in today's tech world than the "Cc" and "Bcc" fields?

Robert Talbot read Remove an Email Address in Gmail, and asked about doing the same thing in Outlook.

It's time to put your PC on a diet.

For many, Microsoft Outlook reigns supreme when it comes to email, scheduling and contact management. However, Outlook can be a pricey way to accomplish mundane, but critical office tasks, and alternatives are available, all at a price anyone could love – free!

With many business users reliant upon Outlook for all their e-mail, calendaring, and contact needs, it can be quite traumatic when Outlook's .pst file goes south. Outlook 2007 and 2010 are quite robust in this regard, but stuff happens. If hard drive sectors fail, Office's scanpst.exe may not be able to fix the file. Advanced Outlook Repair ($250, free feature-limited demo) professes to be able to recover more items from damaged .pst files than anyone--or your money back.

Microsoft's just-released beta of the Outlook Social Connector aims to solve a formidable problem: How to retain Outlook's centrality when social networking sites and services such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have become increasingly important. It largely succeeds.

While I like Outlook, its old-school design can be a bit frustrating to me. Enter Xobni, an Outlook plug-in, which vastly extends the functionality of Outlook.