Outlook is a great program to manager calendars, RSS feeds, contacts, to-do lists, and email. There are two options for email, POP, or POP3, and IMAP. POP3 allows email to be downloaded to your local computer, and a copy left on the server, or deleted after downloading. Today we will setup IMAP in Outlook for use with Gmail. You could setup IMAP on one computer, and POP3 on another, while setting it to leave all messages on the server.

IMAP allows you to view your mail and mail folders on the remote Gmail from inside Outlook, and since you are only viewing the email it all remains on the Gmail servers for those times when you want to access your Gmail account from a different computer. There are a lot of Gmail features that are not available in Outlook, but the ones you really need are.

To setup IMAP in Outlook for use with Gmail you’ll need to first login to your Gmail account, and click Settings at the top right of the screen. Click the radio button next to Enable IMAP, and click Save. Now you’re ready to configure Outlook.

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There is a way to install Microsoft Office 2010 while keeping Microsoft Office 2007 also installed.

• Run the Microsoft Office 2010 setup wizard and click Customize rather than Upgrade.
• Click browse to choose a different installation folder than that which already contains Microsoft Office 2007. Choose a new path such as

  C:\Program Files\MSOffice 2010

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A few months back Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview 1 was leaked onto a the bittorrent network, but was promptly removed after Microsoft did some grumbling. Microsoft Office 2010 is expected to ship in 32 bit and 64 bit versions in the first half of 2010.

Microsoft is also expected to roll out a lighter web application version of Office 2010, together with a free ad-supported version in 2010 as well.

Microsoft is allowing registration for Office 2010 Technical Preview Program (TPP) at the following URL:

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