Microsoft brings new Outlook features to Windows, the web, and its mobile apps

Microsoft is making moves to bolster Outlook across several platforms, with new features rolling out now or set to roll out in the coming months. In a new blog post this calendar week, the Outlook team detailed new features coming to Windows, Mac, the spider web, and the Outlook mobile apps.

In Outlook Calendar, Outlook.com users will now get bill pay reminders based on bills yous receive in your email. The feature will automatically create a agenda event on the due date and send yous an e-mail reminder two days earlier the bill is due.

In Outlook for Windows, you tin now receive suggested event locations and meeting rooms. "Even before you outset typing, Outlook offers suggestions for your meeting location, including recently used (and available) conference rooms and other common locations," Microsoft says. "Once yous beginning to type in the location field, Outlook suggests options based on Bing and so autocompletes your meeting location with the necessary information." This feature ties in nicely with Outlook for iOS, which can use your location, destination, and traffic updates to notify you when it's fourth dimension to get out for your outcome.

For Outlook on Windows and on the spider web, RSVP tracking and forwarding will let you lot hands track responses and RSVPs for meetings, besides as command whether agenda invitations can be forwarded.

On the Outlook Mail service side of things, Outlook users on iOS can now see the details of your organization directory in your contact information. Proxy support is too now included for Outlook on iOS and Android, and Outlook for Windows users volition now get a alarm when they've been blind copied (Bcc) on an e-mail and are responding.

As for what's coming shortly, at that place are quite a few new features in the pipeline, mostly for Outlook'due south mobile apps. The option to sync your drafts between devices, so you lot tin draft a message on 1 device and finish it on some other, will hitting Outlook for iOS this calendar month (it's already available for Windows, Mac, and Android). Office Lens engineering is also coming to Outlook for Android in May, allowing yous to speedily capture details from things like whiteboards, documents, and photos for your emails.

Quick reply is coming to Outlook for Android in May and afterwards this summer for Mac, while the option to tag your favorite people in your contacts is coming to Outlook for iOS and Android in June.

Those are the major new additions hitting Outlook across platforms, but there are some smaller tweaks coming equally well. For more, bank check out Microsoft's full blog mail service.

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