Microsoft Outlook Overview
What is Microsoft Outlook?
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft designed to help users focus on what’s important with a clear view of email, calendars, and contacts. Microsoft Outlook enables users to communicate more effectively by connecting efficiently with others. Available as a native mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows devices, Microsoft Outlook gives users the flexibility to manage their inbox anytime, anywhere, via tablet and mobile devices.
Mircosoft Outlook allows users to see everything they need to know at a glance. Users can preview messages in the message list, so they'll know which ones to read and act on first, and then reply with just a click by typing a response directly into the reading pane. With Outlook, users can discover groups, quickly find what they need, and share files from the cloud, as well as manage their calendar and inbox. Calendar management tools allow users to share their availability, schedule meetings and receive notices easily.
Through the Outlook mobile app, users can access their unified inbox, schedule emails, and attach files conveniently. The mobile app allows users to share files from OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive accounts while on the go, and without leaving Outlook. With Outlook's focused inbox, users can see what matters most first with the most important messages on top.
Microsoft Outlook Overview
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Microsoft Outlook Reviews
Microsoft Outlook Reviews
Outlook is amazing
I've used it with every company I've ever worked for and also have done support for our clients that use it as well for the last 15 years it's a great product
Great Product, but could be more stable
Outlook is a great product and becoming more so all the time. It is the productivity application that our business can't live without. The feature updates in Outlook tend to introduce issues unfortunately. The Shared Mailbox experience could be improved, it is common to see Outlook become non-responsive when switching between shared mailboxes, even on high end computers and gigabit internet. The features and ease of use are really what make Outlook great.
Best app for organizing your emails, events etc
I am overall satisfied with the product. I feel that there are a lot of features provided which are helpful to organize mails and other stuff. There are integrations with the word and Excel which makes things much more convenient as you can just preview the materials attached without downloading any additional software for the same. There is also an integration with One Drive in case you want to attach something which is more than the allowed size.
a good alternative
Despite the small criticisms that I may have against outlook, I usually take this mail and use it for everything, I register in pages, I give it to my acquaintances and I even use it at work because I can use it directly in my laptop, and that saves me a lot of time.
Solid reliable email and all round task management tool
It's a pity that the version I bought for my Mac doesn't have the full functionality that I enjoyed in the past - Microsoft 365 is too expensive for my usage, but I don't know even if I would get the functionality there
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Outlook is amazing
Pros
I like how organized you can keep your emails and folders also to be able to set up rules to automatically put specific emails into folders and the calendar reminders are fantastic
Cons
Every once in awhile it glitches and you'll have to either update or reinstall it other than that it's a great program to use
Great Product, but could be more stable
Outlook is a great product and becoming more so all the time. It is the productivity application that our business can't live without. The feature updates in Outlook tend to introduce issues unfortunately. The Shared Mailbox experience could be improved, it is common to see Outlook become non-responsive when switching between shared mailboxes, even on high end computers and gigabit internet. The features and ease of use are really what make Outlook great.
Pros
* Constantly Evolving Powerhouse of features and functionality
* Dark Theme = love
* Focused Mailbox
* AI Driven daily summary driven by Cortana
* Hundreds of App integrations via Marketplace or 3rd party
* Robust Rule and Tagging/categorization ability
* Quick Steps help apply multiple actions to messages
* Scheduling of messages
* Devloper and customize templates
* Visual Basic advanced development
* Shared Mailboxes
* Group Mailboxes (Channels) that allow team collaboration and follow up
* Favorite your inbox and often accessed folders
* Team, Planner, and Personal Calendar all in a single overlayed view
* Scheduling and Meeting assistance
* Tasks, Contacts, and Sticky notes
* Search emails using filters and key phrases
Cons
* Microsoft's new release and development schedule is great for the addition of new and useful tools but is causing stability issues. It is common to have to repair Outlook and Office applications after a feature update.
* Adding shared mailboxes often causes Outlook to run slowly.
* Some serious optimizations are needed in the sync process to prevent Outlook hanging. I have to disable Downloading of Shared mailboxes, which is enable by default, on every computer Outlook is installed on
Best app for organizing your emails, events etc
I am overall satisfied with the product. I feel that there are a lot of features provided which are helpful to organize mails and other stuff. There are integrations with the word and Excel which makes things much more convenient as you can just preview the materials attached without downloading any additional software for the same. There is also an integration with One Drive in case you want to attach something which is more than the allowed size.
Pros
My company and my university has a tie up with Microsoft products. So, we have Outlook as our email client. It's very helpful in organising emails and customising the email firewall to remove spam emails. Additionally it has integrations with all of the best Microsoft products like Word, Excel, One drive which makes it much more convenient and efficient to use. There's also a mobile application for Outlook where we can keep two different accounts logged in which is a very handy feature for me to stay updated with all the emails and my schedule.
Cons
There are a few desktop features which are only available to paid users. The email organization features could be more helpful if they were like Gmail.
a good alternative
Despite the small criticisms that I may have against outlook, I usually take this mail and use it for everything, I register in pages, I give it to my acquaintances and I even use it at work because I can use it directly in my laptop, and that saves me a lot of time.
Pros
Microsoft Outlook is a good mail system, which allows you to manage your emails quickly and easily. Among its advantages we have that it presents constant updates, presents integration to skype and one drive, and also thanks to the fact that they belong to Microsoft, allows to use the office tools online.
Cons
Among the elements that I like the least is the environment that is not as nice as in other emails, in addition your security system for spam seems not to be properly configured by default.
Solid reliable email and all round task management tool
It's a pity that the version I bought for my Mac doesn't have the full functionality that I enjoyed in the past - Microsoft 365 is too expensive for my usage, but I don't know even if I would get the functionality there
Pros
It offers so many features in combination: email, calendar, tasks, contacts. I can customise my workspace exactly how I need /like to have it for working
Cons
I presently have the version for Mac and it unfortunately doesn't have all the features of say Outlook 2013 that I used in the past in a corporate setting. eg I can't set a mail to automatically file into a specified folder after sending or delay sending until a certain time and because my company email address is on an exchange server I can't use add ins to correct those issues
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Microsoft Outlook Pricing
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Microsoft Outlook Features
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Additional information for Microsoft Outlook
Additional information for Microsoft Outlook
Key features of Microsoft Outlook
- Archiving & retention
- Attachment sharing
- Automatic reminders
- Availability sharing
- Calendar management
- Collaboration tools
- Communication management
- Contact database
- Contact management
- Customizable templates
- Email archiving
- Email invitations & reminders
- Email scheduling
- Email templates
- Exchange ActiveSync support
- Fast filters and context commands
- File management
- File sharing
- Filtered views
- Group management
- Integration of multiple contacts into a single view
- Keyword & people suggestions
- Meeting management
- Meeting scheduling
- Microsoft Office integration
- Navigation bar
- Note sharing
- Prioritizing
- Search functionality
- Shared calendars
- Social connectors
- Task scheduling
- Template management
- Unified inbox
- User management
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Microsoft Outlook FAQs
Microsoft Outlook FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Microsoft Outlook.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Microsoft Outlook offer?
Microsoft Outlook offers the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Contact Microsoft Office for pricing information.
Q. What are the main features of Microsoft Outlook?
Microsoft Outlook offers the following features:
- Archiving & retention
- Attachment sharing
- Automatic reminders
- Availability sharing
- Calendar management
- Collaboration tools
- Communication management
- Contact database
- Contact management
- Customizable templates
- Email archiving
- Email invitations & reminders
- Email scheduling
- Email templates
- Exchange ActiveSync support
- Fast filters and context commands
- File management
- File sharing
- Filtered views
- Group management
- Integration of multiple contacts into a single view
- Keyword & people suggestions
- Meeting management
- Meeting scheduling
- Microsoft Office integration
- Navigation bar
- Note sharing
- Prioritizing
- Search functionality
- Shared calendars
- Social connectors
- Task scheduling
- Template management
- Unified inbox
- User management
Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Outlook?
Microsoft Outlook has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Non Profit, Freelancers, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Microsoft Outlook support?
Microsoft Outlook supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does Microsoft Outlook support mobile devices?
Microsoft Outlook supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Microsoft Outlook integrate with?
Microsoft Outlook integrates with the following applications:
Bitium, Comindware Process, Comindware Project, IT Pro Dashboard, PipelineDeals, Pipeliner CRM, Redbooth, ShareFile, Zendesk Sell, Zurmo CRM
Q. What level of support does Microsoft Outlook offer?
Microsoft Outlook offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
I've used it with every company I've ever worked for and also have done support for our clients that use it as well for the last 15 years it's a great product