The new Microsoft outlook app in on for iOS and Android finally. While iOS and Android devices already have calendar apps, Microsoft said that the new Outlook app makes it easier to sort through your e-mail, contacts, calendar and file-sharing. The app has been developed by Acompli, that Microsoft acquired in December for $200m.
Microsoft suggests that the outlook app will earn high user satisfaction with an advanced UI and features. The Outlook app separates mail into two tabs — Focused and Other. The important e-mails will be placed in the Focused inbox. If you move your e-mail in or out of your Focused inbox, Outlook will start to learn which type of messages are important to you. Swiping left or right opens up other options. This can be further customized as per the user’s preference.
There is also a “Schedule Email” feature that temporarily removes e-mails from your inbox and returns at a time of your choosing. Apart from that, Microsoft’s new Outlook app has predictive search so that you can quickly find the right e-mails, files and contacts.
The best thing about the app is you do not need a MS account to get started. All the features provided by the app can be used across all types of email accounts you have irrespective of their provider.
Keeping the features apart, MS has also laid focus on making the app multilingual . Here is the list of languages that Microsoft said it supports: English, Norwegian (Bokmål), Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
There are older apps from MS on stores already but it is most likely that they would be phased out with the arrival of this new outlook app. Microsoft said that they will be updating the Outlook app on a weekly basis so it will constantly improve.
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