Microsoft has announced that the next version of its Outlook email client will feature tight integration with social notworking sites.Through Microsoft’s introduction of the Outlook social connector middleware layer, back-end services such as Sharepoint, Windows Live, Facebook and Myspace will be able to push information directly to your inbox. Last year the Microsoft announced that its Outlook social connector would be released as part of the Office 2010 beta program in partnership with LinkedIn, however now it seems that Microsoft has managed to sell the big social notworking sites on supporting its gossip delivery platform.In an Outlook MSDN blog post, Microsoft announced its latest partners, trying to show it’s serious about social integration in its popular but often security challenged email application. . . The blog post goes on to describe in tedious detail how you will be able to look up your contacts history to give you all sorts of useful information, such as when you last interacted with your colleagues.Unsurprisingly, the company is going to be using its Outlook social connector to push content from its almost non-existent social notworking site Windows Live direct to your inbox. Vital information such as status updates, profile updates and pictures will be pushed into Outlook right along with messages that might actually mean something to you.Integrating social notworking together with scheduling and email application has hit the headlines lately with Google’s rollout of Buzz. While Microsoft is aiming its Outlook social connector at businesses, it should be acutely aware that privacy will have the potential to make or break its rollout of this feature.