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To warm up this ancient thread... is the situation any better in Outlook 2016?

Seems like Outlook Social Connector is becoming useless. According to https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Facebook-Connect-is-no-longer-available-f31c8107-7b5a-4e3d-8a22-e506dacb6db6?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#BKMK_Social Facebook's plugin will also cease to function (it worked a few minutes...

I found another local sync solution in addition to CompanionLink - AkrutoSync: http://www.akruto.com/features/

I remember a while ago Skype and Outlook were somehow "connected", so you could see the Skype contacts' "availability" color in Outlook's contacts (when you were running both applications). Is this still available in Outlook 2013 (I didn't notice anything in Contacts)? Or was it yet another...

Is this if I was previously logged in, despite the fact that I'm now not logged in anymore due to the "update"? (I was hoping they would be adding new connectors over time, but this seems like they're going to dismantle it altogether soon.)

You mean photos for profiles that have their profile photos public?

I re-enabled the LinkedIn social connector plugin as per your instructions on this page http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/social-connector-outlook/linkedin-social-connector-provider-going-away/ After closing and restarting Outlook 2013, LinkedIn re-appeared in Social Network Accounts. However, it...

Well... Windows 10 will solve all of our problems (despite making a few new ones) and make the world a much better place. ;) [/sarcasm]

Third party or not, this is something so basic that I hope MS "reinvents" soon. I noticed that they do offer some sort of desktop app for Windows phone sync, but it can only sync trivial stuff like photos, music, documents, podcasts...

Thought so. :( Another one of those things that "used to be" normal, and now you have to pay extra if you want it. It's weird that they can't sort this thing out within the house (I mean, you can do it with iGadgets or Android gadgets, but not MS-MS). Oh well.

I've searched around the net and wasn't able to find a definite answer to this. Most of the pages suggest using outlook.com (if you're a "home user") for this purpose. So... Is there really no way to sync Outlook 2013 (contacts, calendar, tasks) with a Windows phone locally (via either USB or wifi)?

And if one wants to keep a Windows 8.1 tablet in sync (contacts, calendar, tasks...) with a computer, is there any other way (like with iOS and Android tablets), or is it the same (as the Windows tablets are basically PCs)?

Is there any way to prevent Outlook from repeatedly downloading more or less the same items from an RSS source? The option "Any RSS Feed item that is updated appears as new" is off. The feed in question is SANS Information Security Reading Room (I think they had some issues with the feed or...

Thanks, I'll have a look into those two. Yes, I meant local network/wifi sync, no clouds of any sort.

Is it possible to have Outlook (2013) on two Windows 7 computers in sync (either continuously or on demand)? Just the main .pst file (Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, some other items) and IMAP accounts.

I remember there used to be issues with text/paragraph wrapping in the past (but that was a really long time ago). However, I just discovered Outlook 2013 now wraps my plain text lines - a friend of mine complained the URL to an article I sent was broken. I don't remember these kinds of issues...

Is Favorites in the upper part of Mail section (in Outlook 2013) the same as Shortcuts section, except that it's limited to Mail? It's been a few years since I last used the favorites in Outlook, and I think there used to be only one of these. I assume there's probably no way to keep Favorites...

I guess I can live without it for now. :) What about the other thing, opening contacts in the "classic" contact card interface from the (F11) search box, is it still doable somehow? Right now I have to go to Contacts, Business Card view, to do this.

Might have been the latter -- me moving it too quickly. However, I haven't encountered it anymore ever since I upgraded to 2013.

If I click the "Add Contact Picture" placeholder on the "classical" contact item form, it opens a dialog box for browsing on local drive (as usual). Is there any way in Outlook 2013 to semi-automatically "pull" the photo from social network (e.g. Facebook) and add it to the contact (that is...