17 February - Microsoft announced partnerships with Facebook and MySpace that would see social-networking information from those services ported into Outlook, as well as the release of LinkedIn for Outlook beta. LinkedIn for Outlook will enable users to view their contacts’ updates and photos alongside e-mails, and update their Outlook contact lists with information from LinkedIn. The aggregation of social-networking info into "hubs" on services such as Outlook is a trend being pursued by many companies, ranging in size from Google to Xobni.

Microsoft is partnering with Facebook and MySpace to allow users to see updates, photos and activities from those social-networking services within Outlook, as part of the OSC (Outlook Social Connector) integrated into the upcoming Office 2010. Those social-networking services will join Windows Live and LinkedIn as services capable of being viewed from within Outlook.

Also on Feb. 16, Microsoft announced the public beta of LinkedIn for Outlook.