Outlook news

Jul 16, 2014

Box eliminates storage limits, adds Office integration

Sorry, OneDrive—even a terabyte isn’t going to cut it. On Tuesday, Box announced integration with Microsoft Office, and subscribers can store as many files as they want. In fact, users of both Microsoft’s Office 2013, Office 365 and Outlook will be able to natively store files in Box. If users choose to link their service to their Box account, Outlook will pop up a reminder to store their files .....

CompanionLink Saves Outlook Users from Google Calendar Sync Sunset

CompanionLink jumps in to help business users maintain Google® to Outlook integration fresh off Google’s disclosure that their Google Calendar Sync tool will no longer work with desktop Outlook Calendar on August 1, 2014.

Demand for personal computers still erratic, outlook unstable

SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Improved demand for personal computers after years of declines may not last as emerging markets remain weak and recent corporate upgrades in the United States and Europe may prove fleeting. The latest sign that the PC market's stability could be short-lived came from technology distributor Synnex Corp. Its shares have slumped 16 percent since Chief Executive ...

Microsoft reports 1.1 billion Office users. Does the IPhone beat Microsoft Outlook in the e-mail clients market?

For many years Microsoft Outlook was the most popular email client in the world. According the latest research, Microsoft Exchange Server accounts for more than half of business mailboxes in 2014; that is, 500m in absolute figures. Many of these users are using Microsoft Outlook, where Outlook Web Access still plays a companion role. The […]

Outlook cannot synchronize subscribed folders in Gmail: Error 0x800CCC0E

As of today (July 15 2014), Gmail turned off basic authentication. Anyone NOT using two step verification is receiving send and receive errors today. You have two choices: enable two step and use app passwords in clients that don’t support pin codes or turn basic auth back on. Two step auth is more secure and is recommended (but it can be annoying).

Calendar Sync for Outlook and Google Calendar

Software to sync Outlook Calendar appointments with Google Calendar events. Allows you to sync one-way with either Outlook or Google as master as well as 2way sync by last changed appointments/events. Option to schedule a sync at regular intervals.

Contacts Sync for Outlook and Google Contacts

Contacts Sync - Synchronize Outlook Contacts with Gmail - Freeware and Pro version. 2way contacts sync, sync Outlook Categories, pictures, notes, sync by last changed contact, skip Outlook Category, sync Outlook Contacts to 2 Gmail accounts, Preview Sync with option to download entire Outlook/Gmail contact list as single CSV file and more.

Cloud business mail has not meet expectations in the last four years?

Some interesting numbers can be found in the research of the Radicati Group. This company specializes in researching e-mail, security, instant messaging and social networking with a focus on enterprise market. In the study entitled “Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Market Analysis, 2010-2014”, we see that on-premises Exchange in 2010 has 76% of mailboxes as […]

Microsoft Boosts OneDrive, Outlook.com Security

Microsoft today revealed it has taken steps to further protect user data by encrypting some of its key services. Moving forward, Microsoft's Outlook.com email service is protected by Transport Layer Security encryption for both inbound and outbound mail. As long as the recipient's email service also supports TLS, emails will be fully protected as it travels between the two email servers ...

Microsoft ramps up protection for Outlook email

Microsoft on Tuesday said it is scrambling Outlook email messages in transit to thwart spying by governments or others. Toughened encryption at Outlook and Microsoft OneDrive online "cloud" data storage service came less than a month after the technology titan got low marks in a Google ranking of such defenses against online snooping. "We are in the midst of a comprehensive engineering effort to ....