This Microsoft Outlook update wants to make sure you don't forget to
follow-up after a meeting

Date:
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:03:26 +0000

Description:
The vision of a truly Microsoft 365 hub the company pushed at Ignite may be one step closer to reality.

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Microsoft Outlook is planning to make it easier to find meeting-critical documents, such as recordings, transcriptions, and minutes, from within the email client itself, without the need to cross over to other applications.

The new feature, revealed on the Microsoft 365 roadmap , will likely collate the AI-powered intelligent recaps delivered by Microsoft Teams Premium , the companys upcoming paid addon for its collaboration platform software.

Thats because those recaps, announced at the companys Ignite event in October 2022, share a provisional December 2022 rollout date. Microsoft 365's productivity competition

Microsofts latest announcement for Outlook is part of the companys ongoing push to make Microsoft 365 a more convenient, consolidated experience

It also announced at Ignite that that the existing Microsoft 365 apps across web, desktop are being retired in favor of one single application , with the complete switchover scheduled for January 2023.

We first caught wind of the intelligent recap features, which may well soon
be announced as integrating with other applications within Microsoft 365, through Microsoft Places , an application Microsoft sees as bridging the gap between remote working solutions and the physical workplace, without
replacing either of them.

Microsoft claims Places will do this by helping employees plan meetings by offering, amongst other things working location labels and a modernized booking system.

All of these updates taken together could seem exciting for companies within Microsofts enterprise ecosystem, and those adopting a hybrid work
environment, but its only the AI recaps that can be said to both innovate and make our lives easier.

With regards to working locations, Google Workspace has long beaten Microsoft to the punch, and has recently announced that its giving IT admins the option to require that employees use the feature within Google Calendar .

Google itself, however, is also playing catch up when it comes to making sure that users never need more than one application environment . READ MORE

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