Microsoft has released a new version of Outlook Hotmail Connector for Office 2010 which is seamlessly bridge between Windows Live and Office Outlook to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars.

Outlook Hotmail Connector enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:

• Read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
• Manage your contacts in Windows Live Hotmail.
• Use advanced options for blocking junk e-mail messages.
• Manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.
• Manage, and synchronize multiple calendars, including shared calendars to Windows Live Calendar from Outlook.
• Your Safe Sender List/Blocked sender list/Safe Recipient lists are synchronized between Outlook and Hotmail.
• Send/receive works like your other Outlook accounts.
• Your Hotmail account status appears in the Outlook status bar.
• Rules work with the Hotmail account in Outlook even if it’s not your primary account.

Since Microsoft introduced Office suite (Office 2010) for both 32bit and 64bit platforms, Outlook Hotmail Connector has also two versions. Its free and you can grab them from here.

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Outlook Hotmail Connector 32-bit

Outlook Hotmail Connector 64-bit

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