The company said in statement, “First, we’re proud to announce the public beta of LinkedIn for Outlook, which will enable our millions of Office 2010 Beta users to connect the Outlook Social Connector to a public network for the first time. Second, we’re excited to announce partnerships with Facebook — the most popular social Web site in the world, and MySpace — a leading social platform connecting people through expression, content, and culture…”
Outlook users can now download LinkedIn for Outlook and transform their desktop inboxes into a hub for all things LinkedIn.
The feature will be included with new copies of Office 2010 and will be available as downloadable add-ons for Office 2007 and Office 2003.
Back in November 2009, Microsoft introduced the Outlook Social Connector and announced their first partnership with 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 experience.
This move comes on the heels of Google’s Buzz, a new social networking component in its Gmail service.
