Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is not merely "another" email Application! It can perform so much more than an email delivery!

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Outlook allows you to send and receive email messages, manage your calendar, store names and numbers of your contacts, and track your tasks. Outlook can't remind you about a task you never entered or an appointment you forgot to write down, but it can prevent you from sending an email without an attachment. If you compose a new email and type the words attachment or attached, then try to send the email without including an attachment, Outlook will remind you that you may have forgotten to attach a file. You can halt the sending process, attach your file, and then send your message. For more cool attachment features, see Attach files or insert pictures in Outlook email messages.

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If you receive flight, hotel, or rental car reservations by email, Outlook will automatically add those to your calendar along with much of the associated information like your confirmation or tracking numbers, and even links. Unfortunately, Outlook can't yet calculate travel time to the airport, so be sure to check traffic before you leave.

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Have you ever found yourself on an email thread you want to ignore? If you work for a large company, someone might add you to a distribution list without your knowledge. For a humorous (and somewhat painful) anecdote about Microsoft's own experience with this situation, see the Exchange Team Blog. Rather than delete every single message in the thread as they arrive, you can Ignore the entire conversation. All messages in the conversation will be moved to the Deleted Items folder and future messages in that conversation will bypass your Inbox entirely and go right to the Deleted Items folder.