Microsoft Outlook is planning to make it simpler to search out meeting-critical paperwork, resembling recordings, transcriptions, and minutes, from throughout the e-mail consumer itself, with out the necessity to cross over to different purposes.

The brand new characteristic, revealed on the Microsoft 365 roadmap (opens in new tab), will doubtless collate the AI-powered “clever recaps” delivered by Microsoft Groups Premium, the corporate’s upcoming paid addon for its collaboration platform software program. 

That’s as a result of these recaps, introduced on the firm’s Ignite occasion in October 2022, share a provisional December 2022 rollout date.

Microsoft 365’s productiveness competitors

Microsoft’s newest announcement for Outlook is a part of the corporate’s ongoing push to make Microsoft 365 a extra handy, consolidated expertise

It additionally introduced at Ignite that that the present Microsoft 365 apps throughout internet, desktop are being retired in favor of 1 single software, with the entire switchover scheduled for January 2023.

We first caught wind of the “clever recap” options, which can properly quickly be introduced as integrating with different purposes inside Microsoft 365, by Microsoft Locations, an software Microsoft sees as bridging the hole between distant working options and the bodily office, with out changing both of them.

Microsoft claims Locations will do that by serving to workers plan conferences by providing, amongst different issues working location labels and a “modernized” reserving system.

All of those updates taken collectively may appear thrilling for firms inside Microsoft’s enterprise ecosystem, and people adopting a hybrid work setting, but it surely’s solely the AI recaps that may be mentioned to each innovate and make our lives simpler.

On the subject of working areas, Google Workspace has lengthy overwhelmed Microsoft to the punch, and has just lately introduced that it’s giving IT admins the choice to require that workers use the characteristic inside Google Calendar.

Google itself, nevertheless, can also be taking part in catch up in the case of ensuring that customers by no means want multiple software setting.

With each Google and Microsoft scheduling main keynotes for a similar week, and providing marginally related characteristic units as a part of both firm’s collaboration instruments (opens in new tab), it’s not straightforward to say proper now which one affords, or will provide, probably the most comfort for enterprises.

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