Connect email from your Windows Live Hotmail into Outlook With the Outlook Hotmail Connector, you can view your Windows Live Hotmail email messages in Outlook alongside your other email accounts. By connecting and organizing your email messages in Outlook 2007, you can take advantage of rich capabilities in Outlook 2007 such as Instant Search and the ability to access your information even when you're offline. With Outlook Hotmail Connector and Outlook 2010, you gain these additional benefits: Connect contacts from your Windows Live Hotmail into Outlook With the Outlook Hotmail Connector, you can view your Windows Live Hotmail contacts in Outlook. By organizing your contacts in Outlook, you can take advantage of the advanced contact management features that Outlook offers such as the new Business Card View, Instant Search, and the ability to sort contacts by different criteria such as location or color category. Additionally, any changes you make to contact information in Outlook will automatically be synchronized with the Web version in your Windows Live Hotmail account. Synchronize calendars from Windows Live Calendar into Outlook With the Outlook Hotmail Connector, you can view your calendars from Windows Live Calendar in Microsoft Office Outlook, including other people's calendars that have been shared with you. By managing your calendars in Outlook, you can take advantage of the time-management features that Outlook offers such as viewing multiple calendars in Outlook at the same time. With Outlook 2007 or 2010 and the Outlook Hotmail Connector, you can also: View tasks and flagged messages