Outlook 2013 Preview

Outlook helps you manage your busy life more easily and efficiently. You get new and improved ways to find information quickly, handle email, coordinate schedules, keep current with contacts and social networks, and tame your unruly to-do lists.

Communicate

Quickly connect and share files with the people and groups that matter most to you.

Exchange ActiveSync Support   Connect Outlook with Exchange ActiveSync, and you’ll receive push-based email, appointments, and contacts via the most popular email servers and services.

Navigation Bar   Continue to enjoy quick and convenient ways to open your email, calendar, contacts, and tasks.

Social Connectors   Get the very latest updates automatically from people in the social networks you rely on most—LinkedIn, Facebook, and others.

Exchange ActiveSync Support

Manage

Peeks

Organize and control your email flow and meeting schedules with new Outlook tools that help you pull it all together effortlessly.

Peeks   Grab a quick glance at your schedule, an appointment, or details about someone you’re emailing—without having to rearrange windows or lose your train of thought.

People Card   Seamlessly integrate multiple contacts into a single view, while presenting social context and removing needless duplication.

Share Your Calendar   Make your calendar available for others to view, so that scheduling meetings and responding to meeting invitations is easier and more convenient for everyone.

Find

Outlook lets you locate important information quickly, helping you communicate key ideas and decisions to the right people, right now.

Weather Bar   View the forecast right in Outlook, and let the coming weather inform how you plan your day’s schedule or your next trip.

Search   Quickly find email, attachments, calendar appointments, and contacts through improved search.

Fast Filters and Context Commands   With a single click, instantly see what’s on your calendar today, next week, or next month. Filter, arrange, and work with your email in a number of intuitive ways.

Weather Bar

 

 

(source : http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/outlook-2013-preview )

Download Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Datacenter

The next release of Windows Server, Windows Server 2012, will offer businesses and hosting providers a scalable, dynamic, and multitenant-aware, cloud-optimized infrastructure. It securely connects across premises and helps IT Professionals to respond to business needs faster and more efficiently.
Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC):

  • Takes you beyond virtualization
  • Delivers the power of many servers with the simplicity of one
  • Opens the door to every app on any cloud
  • Enables the modern work style

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538