Outlook wants our email management to be even more powerful on macOS with the latest update

To talk about mythical Microsoft applications is to talk about Windows, Skype, Office, OneDrive or other new ones such as Launcher for Android or Your Phone and its partner app, Your Phone Companion. One of the first ones that I have not named is Outlook, the popular multiplatform email manager with which we can manage all the communications via e-mail that we have .

A classic application that Microsoft plans to put up to date and Redmond already has plans for Outlook in their versions of desktop for and Mac undergoes a good facelift and incidentally acquires new features, necessary to compete with rivals in current times.Thus, Microsoft has announced the arrival of Build 16.38 (20052800) for all those who use Outlook on macOS. A build that arrives offering plugin support, sensitivity tags, people search, an improved calendar…

Improvements and news

• Outlook now allows you to use favorite add-ins that work with Office JavaScript. API 1.6 and later are fully supported and already work with support for API 1.7+.
• Sensitivity Labels—Easier to protect sensitive information across the enterprise. Messages can be classified based on their confidentiality and sensitivity to ensure that those viewing an email understand how they should treat the attached information.
• Stay on top of what's new: It's now easier to stay up to date on new features and capabilities within Outlook.It can be accessed by clicking the megaphone icon in the upper right corner of Outlook and tapping on the various feature and capability tiles to see short animations demonstrating the feature and even try out new features directly from each tile.

• People View: People view for the new Outlook for Mac is here, allowing you to browse and navigate your most common contacts and even those you want to follow up with, all from the same place. In addition, you can easily create new contacts and update existing entries directly from this new view.
• People Search: Search goes beyond email by helping you discover important contacts and colleagues. Searching for contacts works intuitively when you use people view: just use the search bar at the top of Outlook.While searching for a person, you can click their avatar image in the search suggestions to view additional details about them, such as their organization chart, name, and email address.

• Create Event from Email: You can now include all email recipients and the entire email thread in one event, all directly from the message.
• Suggested Times: When composing an event, Outlook will now take the guesswork out of suggesting a time when all attendees are available.
• Receipt Receipt: Outlook now lets you track who has opened and viewed a message by requesting read receipts when composing mail .
• Extended Search Additions: You can now narrow your searches by selecting “Add more options” to limit your search to fields like CC , Bcc, priority, read, status, the status of the indicator or category.

In addition, Microsoft also announced that the following features will be available soon for users of Outlook for Mac.

• Open Shared Calendars: View all appointments and appointments in one place with the ability to open shared calendars to which have been added and view them along with your personal schedule.
• S/MIME: Enhances email security with digital message encryption, additional protection that ensures that emails they can only be opened by recipients who have the correct password.

Via | Microsoft