MySpace kills off its Microsoft Outlook Social Connector

By Tom Warren, on 2nd May 11 7:00 pm with 11 Comments

MySpace has dropped support for its Microsoft Outlook Social Connector, WinRumors has learned.

Microsoft is no longer promoting MySpace’s Outlook Social Connector and a company spokesperson confirmed to WinRumors that MySpace has killed it. “MySpace has stopped further development and support of the MySpace Outlook Social Connector provider,” said a Microsoft spokesperson. “Please contact MySpace for more information.” Microsoft has replaced MySpace with a French social networking provider, Viadeo, as an Outlook Social Connector partner.

Microsoft unveiled the social connector during the beta phase of Office 2010. The connector provides a stream of content from SharePoint, Windows Live and other social networking sites. At the bottom of Outlook emails users will be provided with contacts latest social networking posts. The social connector for Outlook will also link to Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn social networking accounts. The presence of social networking inside Office 2010 is part of a broad strategy that Microsoft is implementing across all its products.

WinRumors has reached out to MySpace for comment but at the time of writing has not yet received a response.

Outlook Social Connector

  • http://twitter.com/theproweb ThePro

    Is MySpace even up? They should just close that old dusty thing

    • http://www.myunv.com/ Sunny Singh

      That’s really insensitive… plus they still have a good amount of users. Until they all leave, Myspace should still be kept open. At least they’re trying to change things with redesigns and such.

    • http://twitter.com/s_a_r_k_i_s sarkis chamelian

      MySpace sucks. Period….its all about YouTube and Facebook.

    • http://www.myunv.com/ Sunny Singh

      I guess I never read the Sites That Suck fact book.

      I personally don’t use Myspace, but just because something’s not popular anymore won’t make me hate it. I’m actually annoyed by how popular Facebook is.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z6W56L5FCCEDHNOJT4NXML23R4 Isaac Barrett

    I don’t think anybody will notice

  • Anonymous

    Meh. I only use the facebook connector anyway.

  • http://beqiraj.net Valdet Beqiraj

    On the German Site is MySpace Outlook Social Connector still available -> http://office.microsoft.com/de-de/FX101812910

  • John M Cary

    I am confused as to who develops these tools it sounds like the social sites themselves, if so then why was viadeo chosen? Are there other connections that can be made. I hope eventually this will all be done through windows live, some times it is a hassel to install these on different machines, and the LinkedIn one is only available for 32-bit machines.

    • Asdfasdf

       The “LinkedIn Outlook Connector”, LinkedIn’s Social Connector Provider, is also available for 64bit editions of Office.

  • Anonymous

    This article is confusing. At first I thought that the entire Connector (with its Windows Live and Facebook support) was going away. I was about to uninstall it because of this when I realized that they are only talking about the MySpace plug-in for the connector and not the entire thing.

  • http://twitter.com/s_a_r_k_i_s sarkis chamelian

    MySpace…..what MySpace.