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New Outlook features bring a Microsoft 365 hub closer

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MicrosoftOutlook 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 theMicrosoft 365 roadmap, will likely collate the AI-powered “intelligent recaps” delivered byMicrosoft Teams Premium, the company’s upcoming paid addon for itscollaboration platformsoftware.

That’s because those recaps,announcedat the company’s Ignite event in October 2022, share a provisional December 2022 rollout date.

Microsoft 365’s productivity competition

Microsoft’s latest announcement for Outlook is part of the company’s ongoing push to makeMicrosoft 365a more convenient, consolidated experience

It also announced at Ignite that that the existing Microsoft 365 apps across web, desktopare 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, throughMicrosoft 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.

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All of these updates taken together could seem exciting for companies within Microsoft’s enterprise ecosystem, and those adopting ahybrid workenvironment, but it’s only the AI recaps that can be said to both innovate and make our lives easier.

With regards to working locations,GoogleWorkspace has long beaten Microsoft to the punch, and has recently announced that it’s giving IT admins the option torequirethat employees use the feature withinGoogle Calendar.

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

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With both Google and Microsoft scheduling major keynotes for the same week, and offering marginally similar feature sets as part of either company’scollaboration tools, it’s not easy to say right now which one offers, or will offer, the most convenience for enterprises.

Luke Hughes holds the role of Staff Writer at TechRadar Pro, producing news, features and deals content across topics ranging from computing to cloud services, cybersecurity, data privacy and business software.

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