Outlook for Mac Updated with New Design, More Features, and Performance Improvements

Microsoft has showcased a new Outlook app for Mac. The updated email client brings a new UI design, more features, and better performance.

Starting with the blueprint, the new Outlook app for Mac ditches the brand'due south Ribbon blueprint language and uses Microsoft'southward new, Fluent blueprint language. The pattern team has also taken clues from macOS Big Sur to match the design of Outlook with that of the new OS. The new Outlook app uses more white space which offers a lighter look, new Fluent icons in the sidebar, and rounded window edges. At that place is likewise a Dark Manner to reduce strain on your eyes while looking at the app in dark environments. Microsoft has updated the calendar section in Outlook with a cleaner expect equally well, which, co-ordinate to the brand, should increment your productivity.

Moving on to new features, the calendar section in Outlook now has a new My 24-hour interval mini calendar that is at present integrated into the primary window for yous to quickly check your upcoming events. You lot can adjust the size of My Day mini calendar and sidebar pane to improve suit your needs. The event cosmos section has also been updated with a simplified look and a new elevate and drop feature for ease of apply. The app gets a new People view which shows all your contacts in one place with separate sections for contacts and co-workers for increased convenience. The new Outlook for Mac supports third-party add-ons and unified mailboxes also.

As for performance improvements, Microsoft says that the new Outlook for Mac has faster and more reliable operation, reduced account syncing times, reduced email load times, and an improved search which is said to show more than relevant search results.

The new Outlook for Mac is scheduled to launch in mid-October. Once you update the Outlook app for Mac, it will show you a toggle on the top-right corner of the screen to switch to "New Outlook." Enabling this toggle volition offering you the new UI blueprint. Interestingly, Microsoft has retained the older UI pattern as well. You can disable the "New Outlook" toggle to go back to the one-time UI blueprint.

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Microsoft has been working difficult on improving its apps not only for Windows merely as well for Android, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. It recently updated Edge for Mac with some amazing features and anybody has been loving it so far. If the brand continues to do the same in the future, Microsoft'south app suite could soon be adopted past many consumers and companies.

[Source: Microsoft Tech Community]