Com updated and improved

Feb 18, 2016, 13:25

The new, improved version of Microsoft's online email service is out of preview mode, the Outlook.com team said today in a blog post.

Many of Outlook.com's new features were introduced last May when Microsoft launched the email service into Preview mode with a smaller group of customers. Also starting today, GIFs are supported in Outlook.com emails with integration of Giphy, again with the help of add-ins support.

The new Outlook.com integrates some popular apps, which range from Giphy, Wunderlist, Boomerang, Yelp, Uber, Evernote and PayPal. That's over as of Wednesday, and Microsoft has added some new plugin capabilities to go along with it. Compared to the older interface, there's a heck of a lot more going on here and subsequently it comes off as cluttered, but it seems like most of the new features are optional.

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Among the several new features included in the new web client, it's now possible to edit attached Office documents while replying to an email thanks to a new side-by-side editing feature. There's even a highlight in search results so you can clearly find what you're looking for.

Revealing that the revamped Outlook.com is being rolled out in phases to "millions of users each week", Microsoft said that the new version will first be available in the United States; and will soon be released in "other parts of the world".

Microsoft is promising more enhancements and additions "over the coming months", and is inviting users to share their feedback on the Outlook UserVoice site. It allows them to filter search results based on folder, sender, attachments and date.

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Some of the coolest Outlook.com upgrades business users will appreciate include the ability to add flight details to your calendar, add files from Dropbox or Box to your e-mail messages, edit documents alongside e-mail messages you're composing, add people to e-mail threads by @Mentions (typing @ directly in the e-mail body, followed by their name) and move from Skype chat to e-mail from within your inbox. If there is a photo or other attachment shared on the original conversation, we often forget to re-attach it for the new person who was just added. This Facebook-like feature will flag the email as important for a particular user.

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