Windows 10: New ways to get more done in Outlook.com

Brink · May 20, 2015

We are pleased to announce an update to Outlook.com that lets you make the most of the moments that matter to you—featuring a refined inbox, new ways to collaborate, an upgraded calendar and much more. This update is rolling out today, in Preview, to a small group of customers and is the first of many innovations coming as we upgrade Outlook.com to a new Office 365-based infrastructure. These new features will be made available to a broader audience through an opt-in program in the coming weeks.

Let’s take a look at what’s new.

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Familiar, but refined inbox

Your inbox is part of your daily routine. It’s where you keep in touch with family and friends, check the shipping status of packages and find deals from your favorite companies. These new inbox features are aimed at creating a richer and more engaging inbox, while maintaining the same look and feel you love. Here’s what’s new:

Clutter—Get help managing your inbox. Clutter works on your behalf, sorting messages you’re likely to ignore into a separate folder, so you can focus on what matters. The more you use Outlook.com, the better Clutter gets. You can help train Clutter by dragging messages in or out of the Clutter folder and you can turn it on or off depending on your preferences.

Search Suggestions and Refiners—Find what you need, fast. Suggestions put the people you communicate with and the content in your mailbox at your fingertips when searching for content. Refiners let you pivot your search results based on the sender, folder, date received and attachments. We’ve also added highlighting, making it easy to spot your search terms within the results.

New themes—We’ve added 13 new themes with graphic designs to help you express your personality in your inbox.

Link preview—Just paste a link into your message and Outlook.com automatically generates a rich preview to give your recipients a peek into the contents of the destination. It works great with any webpage, but try it with video links from Vimeo and YouTube for something even better.

Inline images—Copy and paste images directly into the body of your message, right where you want them.

Pop-out read and compose—Multi-tasking is easy with messages that pop out into new windows.

Pins and Flags—Keep essential emails at the top of your inbox with Pins and mark others for follow-up with Flags. Pins are now folder specific, great for anyone who uses folders to organize their email. Quickly find and manage your flagged items with inbox filters or the new Task module, accessible from the app launcher.

Add-ins—Announced earlier this month at Build, add-ins appear while you’re reading or composing a message and are designed to help you complete the task at hand. In addition to the Bing Maps, My Templates and Suggested Meetings add-ins that are built-into Outlook.com, we’re excited to have third-party add-ins on the way from Uber, Boomerang and PayPal. Watch for more partner announcements soon.

The Bing Maps add-in lets you effortlessly open a map and get directions to a location found in the body of a message.
New ways to collaborate

Whether you’re planning a camping trip with friends, working on a project with classmates or just trying to get everyone to agree on dinner plans—email is one of the most important ways you get things with others. With that in mind, we’re adding several new features to make staying on the same page a cinch.

New Skype experience—Seamlessly shift conversations between email and Skype. Chat with a group, or one-on-one, using all your favorite Skype emoticons. Start a voice or video call by pressing the call button.

Simplified sharing from OneDrive—Sharing files through the cloud is the best way to keep everyone on the same page, but uploading a file and setting permissions can add a lot of extra steps. Now it’s easy, just attach the file to your draft message—drag and drop or with the file picker—and with one click you can convert it to a shared OneDrive link.

Side-by-side views—Open an attachment and see it side-by-side with the email. You can view or edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents while simultaneously replying to the original message. Best of all, any changes you make to the file are automatically saved and attached to your response when you hit send—no need to download, edit, save and re-attach the revised file. Side-by-side view works great with photos too.

With side-by-side views, your content and conversations coexist. It works great with the free online version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Get time back on your side

The Outlook.com calendar is one of the best ways to stay in sync with your friends and family. With new features and improved navigation, you can easily manage shared calendars, quickly find events by searching for the name, invitees, location or description and stay on top of the dates that matter to you with over 100 country and religious calendars.

New collapsible panels on the left and right side of the calendar make it even easier to manage your time and stay on top of upcoming events.
New mobile web experience

The Outlook apps across Windows, iOS and Android provide a rich app-based for phones, but for those who prefer to access their account on a mobile browser, we’re introducing a cleaner experience with new features like swipe gestures and support for add-ins. You’ll also find great new mobile-friendly views for your calendar and contacts.

Your voice, your vote

In addition to the new features we’re announcing today, we’re also excited to share an important change to how we gather and prioritize feedback. We want to foster a more dynamic conversation—giving our community a chance to see and hear what others are saying and at the same time, creating a direct line of communication with the team that builds Outlook.com.

Today we’re launching the Outlook UserVoice, an open forum for you to share feedback, recommend features, and vote for the ideas you like best. Joining the conversation in the updated web experience is easy—just click Feedback under the Gear icon and you can make your suggestion without leaving your inbox. If you’d like to see and vote on other ideas, you can always visit Outlook.UserVoice.com and sign-in with your Microsoft account.

Simply post your idea or comment to give feedback directly to the Outlook.com team.

We hope you’re eager to try out all of these new features. Stay tuned for more news from the Outlook.com team, including exciting new announcements and details on how you can opt-in to the new experience.

Thanks!

The Outlook.com team
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Source: http://blogs.office.com/2015/05/21/n...n-outlook-com/

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garym123 · May 20, 2015

How do I get my calendar from my nokia 920 to sync with my outlook.com calendar?

You have a microsoft account. The new phone was setup with the same account as the old phone, right?

Did the new phone get it's contacts from outlook.com, your Mcrosoft account, when you set it up?

You are getting contacts and email from the outlook.com account but the calendar doesn't give phone calendar info when you see it online with a PC?

You are bring in way more that is needed to sync a outlook.com account and a phone.

No, I said nothong about POP, EAS. You can add the outlook.com account to your desktop outlook and sync is also. But, get your calendar problem fixed first.

ZigZag3143 (MS -MVP) · May 20, 2015

How to search outlook.com people "Notes" field

Andy

Outlook.com is being migrated to something called "preview" and the notes field IS searchable in it. If you are inclined to opt in before your account is migrated you can do this

To opt in to the new Outlook.com Preview go here.

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There is in progress an update to Outlook.com that lets you make the most of the moments that matter to you—featuring a refined inbox, an upgraded calendar and more.
The update being rolled out in Preview, is the first of many innovations coming as Microsoft
upgrades Outlook.com to a new Office 365-based infrastructure.
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New ways to get more done in Outlook.com

Welcome to Outlook on the web

Outlook UserVoice, is an open forum for you to share feedback, recommend features, and vote for the ideas you like best.

Joining the conversation in the updated web experience is easy—just click
Feedback under the Gear icon and you can make your suggestion without leaving your inbox.

If you’d like to see and vote on other ideas, you can always visit Outlook.UserVoice.com and sign-in with your Microsoft account.

ARC1020 · May 20, 2015

I assume the 'Newsletters' feature in the Windows 8 Mail app is being superseded by the new 'Clutter' feature?

Wynona · May 20, 2015

Among the new Outlook.com features -- which Microsoft first is making available in preview form to a small group of customers starting May 21 -- are a refined inbox, better collaboration capabilities, improved search and a more functional calendar. Microsoft officials said these new features will gradually be available to a broader group of customers "in the coming weeks" through an opt-in program.Microsoft's goal is to bring Outlook and Outlook.com closer together so that users feel like there are fewer differences between these two different email products that are both called "Outlook." It's similar to what the company is doing in terms of bringing together Skype and Skype for Business (Lync), and OneDrive and OneDrive for Business.
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Microsoft takes a step toward bringing Outlook.com and Outlook closer together | ZDNet

gzt7d8 · Apr 4, 2018

So my question is will they provide a feature, in the future, to sync both Outlook and Outlook.com? I could find that very useful it it was available.

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