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Office Outlook 2003 is an e-mail client and personal information manager, handling contacts, tasks, notes and diary entries. Although it works well as a standalone package, it is also the client for Microsoft Exchange Server, in which case additional features appear. The best thing about
Office Outlook 2003 is its integration. For example, from a contact entry you have right-click options for sending e-mails, creating appointments or setting up a task. When you create an e-mail, contacts with e-mail addresses appear as an address book. This kind of integration makes it easier to manage your data. Outlook is also very flexible when it comes to e-mail accounts. You can set up multiple accounts, connecting to POP3, IMAP, Exchange Server or Microsoft’s Hotmail service. Another important feature is the Organize wizard, which makes it easy to create rules that sort mail into different folders. There is also a junk e-mail filter.
There are several important new features in Office Outlook 2003. The most important is to do with how HTML e-mail is rendered. By default, scripts do not run and external content such as images stored on the Internet are not downloaded. This makes Outlook more secure as well as improving performance. If you know the e-mail is safe, you can choose to show all the content. Outlook’s layout has changed, so that e-mails are previewed in a vertical pane. The narrower column is easier to read than before, and it makes better use of available space. Those using Exchange Server benefit from a new offline cache, designed to improve performance, especially over slow Internet connections.
This is the best Outlook yet, although the product still suffers from hidden complexities. It makes good sense as a personal information manager, especially when synchronised with a Pocket PC or Palm PDA, but as a pure e-mail client it is unnecessarily heavyweight. Full marks to Microsoft though for the improved layout and much better e-mail security. --Tim Anderson
Product Description
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 provides an integrated solution for managing and organizing e-mail messages schedules tasks notes contacts and other information. Outlook 2003 delivers innovations you can use to manage your communications organize your work
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