iOS and Android customers who actually love Outlook are in luck right this moment: Microsoft launched a new app bearing the identify of its in style professional-grade email shopper on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store.
Customers will be capable to handle their inbox alongside their calendar within the new cellular app, in a lot the identical manner that they will with the desktop model of Outlook. The app additionally consists of assist for scheduling emails, in order that customers can set them apart, and then have them return after a set period of time away. The app additionally serves as a viewer for information saved in a consumer’s OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive accounts, which they will then connect to any of the messages that they ship.
Each apps can be found free of charge, and don’t require an Workplace 365 subscription to entry any of the options, in contrast to Microsoft’s slate of different Workplace apps for iOS and Android. This Android app remains to be in preview, which implies that customers could expertise some bugs throughout their use of Outlook.
This isn’t the primary time Microsoft has provided an email app for the platforms, however it’s the most generally accessible. The corporate additionally has an Outlook Internet Entry app out there, however it requires a working Workplace 365 Enterprise subscription to work.
It’s primarily based on Acompli, the email app Microsoft acquired in December for a reported $200 million. The Acompli app has been pulled from app shops, although current customers can nonetheless select to proceed their use of the product. Any future enhancements to the options launched by Acompli might be made in Outlook as a substitute, so individuals who wish to keep on the innovative should change.
There’s an extended highway forward for this model of Outlook – Acompli CEO Javier Soltero said in a blog post announcing the new apps that the corporate is working laborious to combine with Microsoft, and extra options might be coming quickly.
“There may be extraordinary energy and untapped potential throughout the entire Workplace 365 applied sciences, and we expect an especially compelling and stunning e-mail app will present one efficient portal to faucet into it,” he stated.
The announcement of cellular Outlook comes as Microsoft additionally revealed its model of Workplace for Android Tablets is now generally available and out of preview.