Outlook.com: Enhanced features coming for everyone
Outlook.com of the renewal process takes another step forward with the announcement of the end of the test phase of the new features that had begun in 2015. It takes time off the deployment of the new features also for global users, starting from States.
Microsoft announced the end of the testing phase of the new features introduced in the Outlook.com website. A new important step in the renewal of the service path that was significantly started in May of 2015 with the announcement of the changes introduced in terms of graphics, functional and structural.
Microsoft had allowed to a restricted group of users access to the preview phase of the new Outlook.com. With the announcement of the last few hours, it is officially gives the distribution of the new features to a wider audience and not exclusively limited to the participants in the beta test program. As it often happens with the products and services of the house of Redmond, US users will be the first to benefit from the changes, but the roll-out worldwide gradually and will reach all major markets.
A summary of the changes introduced in Outlook.com can be helpful to users who in recent months have not followed the previous Microsoft ads.
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The basic premise is that now Outlook.com mutual, both from the structural point of view (with change not visible end user side) both from the functional, many resources from Office 365. This results in ability to benefit from the proven email service integrated into the Microsoft cloud suite of personal productivity with measurable benefits in terms of safety and reliability of the service.
By getting more on the substance of the changes, a first group of news is due to the tools that improve productivity by cooperating with other users to edit files and documents. Thanks to the integration between Outlook.com and Office, the new function for changing side-by-side allows you to view and edit the Word document, PowerPoint and Excel files attached to the email and simultaneously respond to it.
The tools that allow you to add recipients making them part of the contents of the annexes included in the conversation have been enhanced. In fact, not always, when you add a new participant you have the foresight to replace the Annex to the original conversation. Outlook.com now provides a special option, in a highly visible, easily integrating the latest attachments of the conversation when you add a new recipient. Staying on the subject of attachments, you can now pick up their content using cloud services Dropbox and Box. New Recipients can also be quickly added using @Mentions while composing the body of the email, and in the calls included in the calendar. A more simple and immediate way, since you simply enter the name of your contact in the text.
When the email composition is possible to exploit the new mechanism to identify and quickly insert images and emoji. To enter the first simply replace the two points on the desired emoji, for example by typing ” happy ” displays its emoji. The image management tools are empowering with the ability to copy and paste them in the body of the message and to access a range of formatting tools of the same directly from the inbox box.
Outlook.com is also renewed with regard to partners who provide add-ins, or the tools that allow you to further expand the functionality of Outlook with third party services. Besides Yelp – which provides information on restaurants and shops – and Wunderlist – of the lists of activities and things to do management service – whose collaboration with Microsoft was announced earlier this year and which add-ins are now available in the Office Store, comes the new add-in GIPHY that allows you to make eye-catching emails thanks to the library of GIF images. New content that is added to those already provided by famous names, with Uber, PayPal, Evernote and Boomerang.
The new Outlook.com is even more integrated with the Skype chat, video calls and audio. Microsoft’s goal is to enable the user to use the largest number of Skype’s functions without leaving Outlook.com. The most-recent announcement in this regard is related to the ability to schedule a Skype call directly from Outlook.com. The function is not yet active, but will be soon.
Rounding out the picture the new themes, support for previewing online videos and, not least, the measures introduced to bring to the attention of users the most relevant content. Unlike the flag, marking the mail leaving unchanged from the position in the email flow, ” pin ” the mail for placing it on top of the list. Outlook.com now makes the pin applicable to a specific folder. Refined also of the email search tools, through the improvement of the suggestions sent by the system during the search tag composition.
To take advantage of the new features, those already Outlook.com user does not do anything but wait for distributing these are modified in the service backend. Who is not a member Outlook.com and is interested in using it is able at any time signing connecting to this address.
