Outlook will now warn you if you're about to send email to someone out of the office, to a large distribution list (hopefully reducing the amount of unwanted mail in peoples' inboxes), or to someone outside of the local directory. Some of the more useful features, at least to anyone using Outlook in a large business, are the new MailTips. If you're administering Exchange you'll certainly find it a time saver, as you can now manage Exchange's spam quarantine mailbox without leaving your usual Outlook window. If you've ever had to switch between Exchange profiles to get a small piece of work done, you'll know just how big a change this is - and just how much time it'll save. Outlook 2010 can now support more than one Exchange account. The cosmetic changes are welcome, but the biggest change of all is under the surface. Outlook keeps those with all the thread content, saving space on servers and making it easier to read and search your messages. You can also condense a thread, removing redundant messages. It's not perfect (threading is handled by message subject), but it does work, and the visual cues work well. Microsoft has finally sorted out Outlook's conversation view in Outlook 2010 - and makes it the default for all folders. One that's likely to stay is Meeting Reply, which quickly converts an email into a meeting request, with the message in the meeting body, inviting all the message recipients. Quick Steps are customisable, so you can quickly remove those you don't need and replace them with the commands you do use. A new Quick Steps section bundles up common actions (or at least what Microsoft thinks are common actions). There are four default tabs: Home, Send/Receive, Folder and View, with most common commands in the Home tab.
The most obvious change to Outlook 2010 is the arrival of the Ribbon. It's certainly the logical name for a site hosting online Office applications. Certainly someone has taken over the domain - and the site currently there will be gone by the end of July. These are due later in the summer, barring a sudden appearance at this week's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.
One thing missing from the Technical Preview are the online Office applications demonstrated last year at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference.
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