Popular free email service Outlook.com from Microsoft gets a
slew of new features that include Advanced Rules, a new Undo option and in-line
reply starting this May. These features are designed to make your inbox and
consequently, your work, more organized.
“Starting today, we are releasing Advanced Rules and three
other features, all to help you keep your inbox in top shape and make it even
easier to see the email that matters to you,” reads the Official Microsoft
Office blog post announcing about the new updates. Hence, if you were planning
to get Microsoft Outlook
email client, think again!
True to their word, these new features give more control in
the hands of the user in terms of arrangement of the mails in the inbox. The
new Advanced Rules feature enables the user to create multi-condition, multi-action
rules that include time constraints, email tallying, checking read/unread email
state and more. The prior existing rules can now be clubbed together and
customized in a way that suits you. For example, you can set the rules in such
a way that any e-mail from your contact that is yet to be opened three days
after receiving will automatically be flagged as important.
Microsoft finally added the in-line reply feature that was
standard in Google mail stating “Almost 8 million times a day” use of the Reply button. This feature saves a lot
of time by allowing Outlook.com users the ability to reply to an email in the
same view.
Apart from all these features, the new Undo option, which is similar to the Ctrl + Z function, helps you undo an accidental move. Let us say
you accidentally moved an e-mail into the wrong folder. You would have to enter
that folder and move it back to the folder you originally planned to send. But
using the undo function, you can revert your action with the press of a button.
Some of the actions that can be undone by this feature are categorization,
flagging, moving emails to junk, and moving back an email that was moved to a wrong
folder.
Apart from these features, Microsoft eased up the process to
start a conversation in the chat system. You can just click on the user you
want to start the conversation with from the tilted view box in the bottom left
corner of the screen.
With all these features and updates in Outlook.com, it would
not make logic to get Microsoft Outlook client instead of using the Outlook.com
web service for regular uses.
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