Microsoft
has released an Outlook app for iOS and also a preview version for
Android, according to an official blogpost by the company.
The
iOS app allows you to manage both work and personal email on your
iPhone or iPad. Outlook offers customizable swipes and actions so you
can customise it according to your convenience.
Another
feature is that calendars can be integrated with Outlook email. Outlook
apps will work with Exchange, Outlook.com, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and other
major email services.
Microsoft
also announced that they’ve seen 80 million downloads of Office on
iPhone and iPad worldwide so far. Also the Android apps for Office will
no longer have the “preview” label and will be available in Google Play
Store as free downloads. Users can download the apps, and then log in
with their Microsoft Accounts to create files, print, edit, etc. For
premium features, you will however need an Office 365 subscription.
The
Outlook mail app seems to getting some solid rave reviews already. This
post on Business Insider by Steve Kovach says he deleted the Gmail app
five minutes are he got the Outlook app.
Kovach
writes that the app is “based on another email app called Accompli,
which Microsoft bought a few months ago.” He also points out that the
Gmail app was giving him trouble for sometime, (messages would take time
to load) and thus when Outlook came along, he was happy to get rid of
Gmail. In fact he also notes that the Outlook app can sync with the
Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive file storage services as
well as Google Calendar.
The
Verge’s Vlad Savoy was also full of praise for the new Outlook app. He
wrote, “Outlook pulls ahead is in the smoothness and speed of its
interactions. To delete or archive an email, I need just a single,
fluidly animated swipe.” He also says the app was using less of his
iPhone battery, something every Apple user is grateful for.
He adds that his “best pick for reading Gmail on an iPhone today is being provided by Outlook.”
It seems the app is already a winner. We’ll have more once we download and use this.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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