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Microsoft launches revamped Outlook mail app based on Acompli for iOS [Video]

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Microsoft announced plans today to launch a new app for its Outlook email service on iOS. The app is based on the Acompli software that the company purchased in December for $200 million. The app includes “email triage” features found in the old app as well as new features to help appeal to a wider audience, such as the ability to toggle threaded conversation views.

The Outlook iOS app will also support mail from third-party services beyond Microsoft’s. iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo email accounts can be plugged into the app, and attachments can be added to messages from cloud services like Google Drive and Dropox. Check out the video below …

It will eventually replace the existing OWA app for iPhone, but that app will continue to be available for the foreseeable future. The Outlook app is an entirely new app, not an update of an existing one. You can download it from the App Store for free right now.

Microsoft also announced today that its Office apps for iPhone and iPad are now at more than 80 million downloads.

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  1. varera (@real_varera) - 9 years ago

    Bzzzzzzzom! Wrong move again, MS. Just die already, please

    • dernutzer2015 - 9 years ago

      Welcome to 1996. Will definitely give the revamped app a try, Word, Excel and PowerPoint are actually quite good.

    • Dan Exby (@dan_exby) - 9 years ago

      Looks significantly better than the default email app. Will definitely give it a try.

      Not sure why you’re so down on an app…?

      • rosekrueger747 - 9 years ago

        Immaturity – that’s usually the reason. Hasn’t tried it let alone seen it but he’s and “expert” what does that tell you

    • Gave it a try. Can’t add pop3 accounts. Can’t add iCloud if two-step authentication is enabled. Fail!

      • Chad Bradley - 9 years ago

        Yes you can. Log in into appleid.apple.com and create a app specific password for outlook. Very easy!!!

      • Still can’t get pop accounts in like GoDaddy. OR, if you just like your gmail accounts to use pop instead of imap. Once again, it’s microsoft deciding for you what you want.

      • GeniusUnleashed - 9 years ago

        Then just download Acompli?

      • rosekrueger747 - 9 years ago

        Um nice try you sure can –

    • Or just stick with the mail app I already have… and it works :-)

    • rosekrueger747 - 9 years ago

      LOL – dream on little boy. Wow wish I had $5 for every jack-wagon that had some asinine comment like that I would be rich. The children still wish for false and unrealistic dreams – but they are so funny to read. Keep it up your a pure entertainment factor.

    • David Canoa (@DNCanoa) - 9 years ago

      Actually it made me switch from the stock iOS app, which I had never done before.

  2. Ryan Scullen (@techlife) - 9 years ago

    They should have considered the business market more before sticking the Outlook name on this product. OneDrive integration is personal only. Corporate O365 email works with this app, but not corporate O365 OneDrive. :(

  3. Eric Stanfield - 9 years ago

    Was pretty psyched for this and downloaded it when I saw the headline. Seems ok but a combined inbox for all your accounts is the only inbox available and there’s no support for adding shared calendars. How MS arrives at their list of useful features to drop from applications they port off Windows always puzzles me (I’m looking at you Outlook for Mac), but unfortunately w/o these two there’s really no reason to stop using the built-in ios apps for me.

  4. WaveMedia (@WaveMedia) - 9 years ago

    So now they have Outlook the email service, Outlook the email client for the service and Outlook the email client thats part of Office… talk about brand confusion.

  5. Edgar Melecio - 9 years ago

    Will it Print??? That’s very important!

  6. Looks like it’s off to a good start. The Apple default iOS mail app sucks. There are worse out there, sure, but compared to their desktop app, the iOS app is the epitome of featureless.

    BUT… It sounds like this offering from MS is going to fall flat is it doesn’t have the ability to toggle individual email accounts (inboxes) or support shared calendars as someone else mentioned.

  7. Skånske Tjernberg - 9 years ago

    This app is full of security issues. We tried it in our enterprise organisation, and suddenly the app started to spam the users about eachothers sent text messages (SMS). The app is now banned here!

  8. kadeeu - 9 years ago

    Search capability is a big FAIL. Not being able to search on individual aspects of the emails is terrible design. Apple took this away this capability from their email client and I moved on.

  9. Sue Hamly (@ReikiRevSue) - 9 years ago

    I like the Outlook app for iOS. But I don’t use it for business. I would like something just like it for the Mac without having to buy MS Office 365 or whatever. I don’t want MS Office, I just want the Outlook mail app. (Yes, I do know that I have to still use the Apple mail app when I want to print. But I think they will be adding that and other features soon, from what I’ve read.)