Steven Bink, of Bink.nu, has noted that SP2 features more than just security updates to Office. Indeed, for Outlook at least, a bundle of new features can be found.
Outlook now boasts improved anti-phishing software, which can be seen in the screenshots below. Faced with an increasingly dangerous 'email landscape', Microsoft have improved the way in which Outlook deals with dubious messages, and attempts to better inform the user. In emails where Outlook suspects something might be a bit fishy (no pun intended), it disables links in the message.
SP2, released earlier this week with relatively little fanfare, is probably the last update for Office until version twelve, expected in 2006. The next generation of Office was given a lot of attention at the recent PDC conference, and features major UI and functionality improvements.
Microsoft has not released a list detailing specific updates and changes with SP2, so, if you do find something new in any of the Office 2003 programs, leave a comment below.
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Outlook now boasts improved anti-phishing software, which can be seen in the screenshots below. Faced with an increasingly dangerous 'email landscape', Microsoft have improved the way in which Outlook deals with dubious messages, and attempts to better inform the user. In emails where Outlook suspects something might be a bit fishy (no pun intended), it disables links in the message.
SP2, released earlier this week with relatively little fanfare, is probably the last update for Office until version twelve, expected in 2006. The next generation of Office was given a lot of attention at the recent PDC conference, and features major UI and functionality improvements.
Microsoft has not released a list detailing specific updates and changes with SP2, so, if you do find something new in any of the Office 2003 programs, leave a comment below.
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What's New in GAlert 2.2.1.0:
- Added skin support for Desktop Alert Window. New skin BlueTone comes with installation. More skins are coming soon.
- Added GMail Label support. Now user can setup Label filter in GMail and get notified from GAlert.
- Use blinking tray icon to give users more indication when check/open emails.
- Some other improvements and tweakings.
Main Features:
- Support multiple GMail accounts and GMail Label filters
- Support easy automatic login through context menu and system wide Hot Key
- Support using GMail to send mail from mailto: link
- Support skinable Desktop Alert Window and customizable virtual effect, bring clean and elegant look to your desktop
- Support playing different audio formats (*.wav, *.mp3) etc when new email arrives
- Protect GMail users' privacy by using HTTPs internet connections and Blowfish account passwords encryption
- High performance
- Easily navigate and browse received message using Mouse Scroll Wheel on Desktop Alert Window
- Support all windows browsers (IE, FireFox, Mozilla, Opera and many more)
Heck, often even if you haven't revealed your address.
Give it a learnable bayesian filter like any modern e-mail client should have. They have one in Outlook 2003, but with the brilliant design decision that it isn't learnable. Works great to adapt and keep up to date with new spam techniques... :p
But I guess they have to push that for Office 12 to give it something new to encourage people spending money on instead. The beauty of the closed source model -- delay features for later product releases' profits. Company's win, consumer's loss.
- Hope that helps
- Dominic
any ideas?
they added that little dot thing...unless ive just never noticed it before...
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011511561033.aspx
Click View..Reading Pane..Right...
"Microsoft has not released a list detailing specific updates and changes with SP2."
It is in the Microsoft KB article about it.
HTML mail in my junk folder is being converted to plain text; "This message was converted to plain text."
Since when is this a new feature? Outlook 2003 has ALWAYS done this for me... At least since SP1. And yes, I'm talking about items in the inbox, NOT in the Junk Mail Folder...
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