Outlook 2013
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We are in the midst of the euphoria of the launch of Office 2013, the umpteenth version of Microsoft's flagship product, and you are going to find tens or thousands of reference documents where they will make a detailed description of all its characteristics.
This article will try to present a closer point of view about the Outlook 2013 email client, sharing the experiences of the editor ( who writes this post) in the almost daily use of this tool, but emphasizing the news.
An in-depth face lift
Between us, and now that nobody reads us, Most of the people I know use Outlook at the office, leaving Gmail or hotmail (now live) to manage mail through Web clients.
But the people at Office, who have shown in these decades that they are not fools, what they have done is give this on-premise client a very important facelift, taking very well received in other email clients and making their use almost transparent with our email accounts on the web Maintaining, yes, all the power of this communications application , and integrating the entire Microsoft office ecosystem, transparently.
Thus, for example, the treatment of emails in the preview list has been greatly streamlined, that is, the list where the email subjects and the first line of the message body are seen.Allowing direct operations such as deleting the mail or creating a task directly with it.
But if it doesn't seem like much, I press the right mouse button and I get a contextual menu as long as a day without bread, with many more operations – in addition to the typical reply, reply to all or forward – otherwise things like categorizing by colors, getting the conversation to which the email belongs, or using actions called “Quick Steps”.
Another thing I liked is being able to filter the read and unread trays. For a profile like mine, which has many emails to deal with per day, is a filter as simple as it is useful, as well as being able to continue sorting by many fields.
Way beyond the mail
That Outlook is possibly the best on-premises mail client is something I could easily defend. And much more now when I have connected my Microsoft Account, and its associated account, in a snap, without having to configure anything by hand.
But I have access to the other capabilities of the client such as the Calendar, the people (a hypervitalized contact book), the management and control of tasks, the notes or the folders, all of them old acquaintances , but with a new graphic design and interface.
For example, the Quick Views, which are displayed when I put the mouse over one of the shortcuts in the lower menu, and which shows me condensed information about the calendar, my favorite people or my most important tasks nearby.
In summary, it's still the Outlook I know so well, but with usability improvements and with a profound redesign of the graphical interface and therefore of the user experience .
To see more news, I leave you the video of the Office people themselves who deals with the news of the mail client.
Video: Video: What's new in Outlook 2013
