What is Microsoft Outlook/Exchange?

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Primarily an email client, Outlook also includes calendaring, task managing, contact managing, note-taking, journal logging, and web browsing. Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft. It is often used in corporate environments to manage email, calendars, contacts, and tasks for employees. Outlook is commonly used as the client application to access Exchange Server.