MS adds social media features to email

BANGALORE, INDIA: Microsoft has recently enhanced its Office suite by adding new social media features. It has announced the availability of Outlook Social Connector on LinkedIn.

The Outlook Social Connector is a set of new features that bring together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook.

With the LinkedIn download for the Outlook Social Connector, users would be able to connect colleagues network and get updates through email.

In his blog, Dev Balasubramanian, product manager, Microsoft Outlook said, “ What we think users will appreciate is that the Outlook Social Connector doesn’t add another professional or social network into the mix.”

“The Outlook Social Connector does offer busy people, who are already a part of one or several networks, convenience – not confusion,” he added.

Microsoft is also planning to extend this platform over Facebook and MySpace.