Microsoft Outlook� What a strange name for an email client! Microsoft Outlook was by far one of the most used programs that I had used along with Microsoft Word. It managed my email, contacts and let me do things in an efficient way. Outlook 10 is more than improved. In fact it was totally revamped especially concerning the email area. New features and improvements are numerous making Outlook better and much more powerful than ever. As usual Outlook 10 can perfectly manage several email accounts and due to the fact you can create your own folders, managing and sorting emails is a child�s game. Thanks to the fact Microsoft Outlook 10 supports multiple folders, you can create rules to automatically transfer incoming emails into a specific folder according to the characteristics of the emails you receive. That is to say you can create a folder for work emails, an other folder for family mails, as well as other folders for unknown & junk emails: that way you can efficiently manage your emails assigning them a priority level of treatment.  Until recently, Microsoft Outlook didn�t support HTML emails. The HTML email support was always weak but this time with Outlook 10, the HTML email support has been enhanced so you can receive multimedia emails with Flash attachments and read them with no problem. One feature Microsoft planned to add in Microsoft Office 2000 SR1 that was postponed is now part of Outlook 10 so you can, at last, retrieve emails you received on your Hotmail accounts, manage existing ones or send new ones directly within Outlook without the need to launch a browser to connect to Hotmail.com. Back to Microsoft Outlook 10 is the ability to request a delivery receipt for sent emails (but why did MS remove this feature in previous release?) so you are sure the server you were sending it to correctly received emails. Just like in Microsoft Outlook 2000 you can request a read receipt for the email you sent so you�re sure recipients read your mails. An interesting new feature of Outlook that quickly becomes essential is the �AutoComplete Addressing�: when user enters an e-mail address, Outlook automatically recognizes it and completes the name based on previously sent e-mail (or on the fact the buddy is in your address book) to the recipient. This enables users to quickly send e-mail to others without spending time searching for e-mail addresses: I really fall in love with this simple but awesome feature. Once you taste it you how this feature is missing in Outlook Express. Microsoft Outlook 10 reintroduces an improved WordMail feature that is now the default email editor so you can create high impact emails using the power of Word! Many things were improved in WordMail like first the reliability. Then the size of produced HTML messages is smaller than before thanks to the fact WordMail removes document specific tags that were previously included so that users could edit it back in Word.  If you�re like an avid user of email that keeps track of every email over the years you�ll quickly have an enormous inbox with thousands of emails (personally mine reaches more than 8700 received emails!) As a result your storage file gets enormous while loading Outlook can be very long. Here Microsoft has done a good job enhancing core code to fasten loading operations: so users with a large inbox don�t wait too much before Outlook start. But Microsoft didn�t stop here since they even include Mailbox cleanup tool that display the size of the mailbox while enabling users to search for files by size or by age in order to delete, move or archive them so they can free up some space (Exchange users can also automatically be notified when they are approaching their mailbox size limit and choose from the above options for cleaning up their mailbox). The search feature of Outlook has also been revamped: when you enable the search feature a simple small toolbar appears with a text case where you�ll have to type the content you�re searching for. This doesn�t cumber the screen and allows you to still view received emails. As part of the core enhancement the search feature finds items much faster than before. Obviously advanced searching tools are still available to let you dig in your inbox. To improve further your overall communication experience, Outlook 10 now lets you directly chat through MSN Messenger with online contacts by a simple click in the contact card or in the last email you received from this specific person.