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1. #Microsoft outlook 2013 review update
2. #Microsoft outlook 2013 review pro
3. #Microsoft outlook 2013 review license
4. #Microsoft outlook 2013 review Offline

The new features aren't groundbreaking, but they're all at least sparingly useful. With the exception of the new mail alerts-inferior to their Outlook 2010 counterparts-it's a better application all round.

#Microsoft outlook 2013 review update

Overall, Outlook 2013 is a modest update to Microsoft's flagship mail and calendaring application. These will all be offered, with a mix of free and paid extensions, through the Office Marketplace. Server-side extensions can be written to, for example, detect addresses in e-mails and embed mapping information. Microsoft also has a new extensibility model and app store for Exchange and Outlook add-ons. That said, Outlook does have some small interactions with the Office Account system. I would have expected Outlook to come preconfigured for that account.

#Microsoft outlook 2013 review license

For this preview, I used an Office 2013 subscription with my license tied to a corresponding Office 365 account. However, the lack of integration did surprise me in one place. The Office account menu that's in the top right of every other Office app isn't in Outlook, nor are things like SkyDrive integration. This has resulted in some user interface differences in the past-Outlook 2007 didn't have a ribbon in the main app window, for example-and those continue in 2013. Outlook has long been "special" among the Office apps, because it's not document-based and is much more network-centric. I have large inboxes and small laptop SSDs a rolling 1 year mail cache is probably fine. It seems like a small thing, but this is a feature I've wanted for a long time. It defaults to one year, and has a range from one month to forever. Outlook 2013 now has a slider to say how far back mail should be cached. If you have a 25GB inbox, this requires a 25GB cache.

#Microsoft outlook 2013 review Offline

In Outlook 2010, this is a binary toggle you either have mail cached for offline use, or you don't. You should also, in principle, be able to use it with Gmail (though if you use auto-configuration, it will default to IMAP instead).įor Exchange users, there's greater control of offline mail caching. ActiveSync is natively supported by Exchange (though Outlook preferentially uses Outlook Anywhere with Exchange servers) and is also supported by certain Web-based mail providers including Hotmail and Gmail.Īs a result, Outlook can directly communicate with Hotmail, a task that previously required a plugin.

As well as Exchange (using both RPC and HTTP-RPC ), IMAP, and POP3, Outlook can now directly use Microsoft's ActiveSync API that's used by smartphones and tablets for push mail, contact and calendar sync, and so on. Outlook now supports more kinds of mailboxes than ever before. In addition to these visible changes, a few things have gone on behind the scenes. (We've already looked at the major design changes to the Office 2013 suite as a whole.)Įnlarge / The new People view amalgamates all your contact information. The focus of Office 2007, 2010, and now 2013 is less on raw feature count and more on streamlining common tasks and making it easier to find the functionality you need. This is not entirely surprising: the Office applications are mature, many of them more than 20 years old, and they all do pretty much everything they'd ever need to. In common with the other applications in the Office 2013 suite, Outlook 2013 has been given a handful of new features and a fresh coat of paint. We may be more directly productive in Word or Excel, but it's Outlook that guides that productivity. It's where we manage the steady trickle of e-mail that drives and directs our work, it's where we plan our days, and it's where we keep all our business contacts.

#Microsoft outlook 2013 review pro

Microsoft Office 2013 Pro released to the masses, Office 365 updated.Review: Exchange and SharePoint 2013 ready for cloud-yours or Microsoft’s.