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Outlook.com facelift

Microsoft is rolling out major updates to Outlook.com, which launched 20 years ago as an independent visitor and service named Hotmail, beginning this week. If you create a new account, you should see the new site and features immediately. Yet, if like me, you're an existing user, then you might have to wait a while equally Microsoft rolls out the updates across all accounts.

Here'due south what's new, according to Microsoft'south Office Weblog:

  1. Yous can edit Office documents sent as attachments in side-by-side windows within the Outlook.com Spider web folio. This tin can be washed while in the midst of working on an email reply;
  2. If you add a new person to an email response that had an attachment, Outlook.com will inquire if you desire to reattach the file or photo to this response;
  3. Pins can keep a message at the top of Outlook.com's Inbox. Pins work on a per-folder basis if y'all deal with many categories of messages. There are likewise Flags, which let y'all mark a message for follow-upwardly;
  4. The @Mentions feature lets you add someone to an email conversation by typing an ampersand at-symbol (@) in the message body, which brings up the names of frequent contacts every bit well as letting yous search through your accost directory;
  5. Yous can perform unproblematic editing of images added to an e-mail message;
  6. Typing a colon (:) followed immediately past a keyword like "happy" brings upwardly a listing of emojis to choose from, which you tin can then include in a message.

Microsoft's announcement spends much of its text space and animated screenshots highlighting the company's partner relationships. There'south a special page in the Part Store for Outlook.com add-ins. Two of the ten currently available partner add together-ins are paid ones: "Speed Read!" costs $1.99 (as a ane-time fee), and the "Dropbox to Outlook Import" subscription costs $1.99 per month.

The remaining viii currently available add together-ins for Outlook.com are free:

  1. Boomerang: Lets you schedule emails to be sent at the optimal time, reminds y'all to follow upwards on of import letters that don't become a response, and schedules meetings;
  2. Email Translator: Use Microsoft Translator to interpret the text in an e-mail message;
  3. Evernote for Outlook: Saves electronic mail to Evernote;
  4. Message Header Analyzer: Analyzes headers in email messages;
  5. Parcel Tracker: Tracks FedEx package status;
  6. PayPal for Outlook: Sends money via electronic mail;
  7. Uber Ride Reminder: Sends yous a mobile reminder when it's time to ride to your outcome;
  8. Wunderlist for Outlook: Saves electronic mail messages equally tasks.

Microsoft besides appear two partner add-ins that aren't bachelor notwithstanding in the Function Store:

  1. Giphy: Adds blithe images from a GIF library;
  2. Yelp: Provides Yelp reviews, photos, and contact information, and inserts these details directly into the body of your bulletin or meeting invitation.

You lot can watch Microsoft'due south video overview of the updated Outlook.com in the YouTube video beneath.