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Outlook helps you focus on what matters to you
We are being inundated with more information, more communication and more email vying for our attention. It is more critical than ever to have tools that help us cut through the noise and focus on what matters most. Today, Outlook is expanding the availability of two new experiences to do just that—Focused Inbox and @mentions.
These new experiences add to several recently released features, all aimed at helping you take control of your mailbox. In December, Outlook began automatically adding events from your email to your calendar. And last month we added simplified summary cards in your inbox and calendar for travel reservations and package deliveries. Combined, these features help deliver on Outlook’s core mission: Keeping you connected, focused and on top of what matters.
Focused Inbox—focus on the emails that matter most
For many, the inbox is the command center for their day. It’s the way to keep track of what is going on and what needs to get done. Outlook’s Focused Inbox makes this process easier by helping you focus on the emails that matter most to you. It separates your inbox into two tabs—Focused and Other. Emails that matter most to you are in the Focused tab, while the rest remain easily accessible—but out of the way in the Other tab. You’ll be informed about email flowing to Other, and you can switch between tabs at any time to take a quick look.
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You’re in control
Focused Inbox is not meant to take control of your mail, but rather work with you to prioritize what is important to you. What lands in your Focused Inbox is determined by an understanding of the people you interact with often, and the content of the email itself (e.g., newsletters, machine generated mail, etc.). If you need to fine tune your Focused Inbox, just use the “Move to Focused” or “Move to Other” options.
What this means for Clutter
Focused Inbox is a refinement and improvement of a previous feature called Clutter. Clutter’s purpose was also to help you focus on the most important items in your inbox, but it did so by moving “Other” email to a separate folder. Focused Inbox makes it easier for you to stay on top of incoming email without having to visit another folder.
As Focused Inbox rolls out, we’ll stop moving messages to the Clutter folder. See the “Frequently asked questions” below for more details on how this will work.
Rollout of Focused Inbox
Focused Inbox was first released on Outlook for iOS and Android and is being used daily by tens of millions of users. Now, it is coming to all versions of Outlook to give you one consistent view of the important items in your inbox. It begins rolling out this week for users of the new Outlook.com and will soon start rolling out for Office 365 customers in our First Release program in early September. Office 365 admins will have mailbox and tenant level control of the feature to stage the rollout in a manner that works best for their organization.
@mentions—get someone’s attention and focus your own
@mentions make collaborating on email fast and easy. Simply type the @ symbol anywhere in the body of your email and start typing to pick the person you want to address. Once you pick the person you want to address their name is highlighted in the message in blue, helping them know they are being asked to take an action in your message. In addition, if the person isn’t part of the email conversation already, they will be automatically added to the To… line so they receive a copy of your email.
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@mention someone by typing the @ symbol, followed by their name in the body of your email.
Focus on what needs your attention
In addition to helping you get other people’s attention, @mentions also helps you be aware of what you’ve been asked to do. Outlook adds an @ symbol in the message list for the messages you’ve been mentioned in, so you can see at a glance which emails require your action before you open them. Outlook also includes a filter so you can sort to see only the messages where you’ve been mentioned. Once you’ve opened the email, the blue highlighting of your name in the body of the email helps you quickly find where you’ve been mentioned.
Pro tip—For messages where you’ve been mentioned, Outlook also updates the preview text of the message. Instead of a preview of the first words of the email, Outlook shows you a preview of the text immediately following your mention.
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CEO's Gather for First-Ever Mixed Reality Experience
CEO's from San Diego Magazine’s Fastest Growing Companies Winners List Gather for Bleeding-Edge, Immersive, Holographic Experience
“Experiencing mixed-reality is truly mind-blowing and I can’t wait to see the looks on the faces of these area execs as they complete their holographic mission.” -Jackie Wiener, VP Marketing & Customer Engagement, Managed Solution
San Diego, CA –Managed Solution, San Diego’s fastest growing full-service technology firm, plans to unveil its newly created app for Microsoft’s HoloLens, Thursday, August 11th, 2016, at San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewery. This C-Level engagement is set to introduce their innovative app and the latest in holographic technology to the area’s best and brightest CEO’s.
Combining mixed and augmented reality, Microsoft Hololens takes Pokemon Go to the next level and beyond. Microsoft's HoloLens creates a real life, holographic mixed reality experience that you've only seen in SciFi Movies.
Managed Solution’s take on the technology includes an immersive, holographic app designed by female developer & award-winner, Jackie Wiener, VP of Marketing & Customer Engagement. Wiener put in her bid to be part of the external development group more than a year ago, recently gaining acceptance into the tightly restricted program. HoloLens is not yet publically available, making this experience even more rare.
“We are hosting this Invite-only event geared at exciting Southern California’s top CEO's to envision how mixed reality technology can amplify business, said Wiener.” “Experiencing mixed-reality is truly mind-blowing and I can’t wait to see the looks on the faces of these area execs as they complete their holographic mission.”
This one-of-a-kind event includes a C-level Contest where CEO's compete in a timed, augmented reality mission. Each CEO will sport the untethered, holographic enabled headset and will be tested on the execution, retention, and speed of the information received.
Events are being scheduled in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Phoenix.
Microsoft’s HoloLens is a holographic application built inside a sleek, flashy headset with transparent lenses. The outside world is still visible but suddenly your world can be transformed -- with 3D objects floating in midair, virtual screens on the wall and the surrounding area covered in virtual characters.
To request an invitation to this invite-only event contact Liliana Ciurlino @ lciurlino@managedsolution.com or call (858) 429-3025
About Managed Solution:
Managed Solution is a full-service technology firm that empowers businesses by delivering, maintaining and forecasting the technologies they’ll need to stay competitive in their market place. Regional Partners with Microsoft & Microsoft's United States SMB Champions Club West Region Marketer of the Year 2016, Managed Solution provides software migration, hardware, project implementation and managed services for small to enterprise size clients.
Managed Solution was founded in 2002 and was quickly recognized as one of San Diego’s 40 fastest growing companies and the 27th fastest growing IT company in Southern California. With corporate headquarters in San Diego, Managed Solution provides IT services nationwide and was recently recognized as one of the top 10 National Cloud Service Providers.
For more information or media inquiries please email Liliana Ciurlino @ lciurlino@managedsolution.com or call (858) 429-3025
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Zack Krugel joins the Managed Solution team as an Inside Sales Representative. After being born and raised on the south shore of Connecticut, Zack attended Western Connecticut State University where he was a member of the rugby team. He graduated in 2013 with a double major in Social Studies and Secondary Education. Zack then began his professional career at CDW in Shelton, CT, and he moved to Brooklyn, NY for the past year.
Currently living in Ocean Beach, Zack enjoys running and skateboarding, as well as learning how to surf. Outside of the office, Zack enjoys going to music festivals and doing anything to stay active.
With traveling as one of his passions, Zack continues to travel internationally as much as he can. He has been to Australia, New Zealand, and all over Europe multiple times. In addition, he is a huge UCONN sports fan and NYCFC soccer team fan.
Zack started working at Managed Solution on July 20, 2016, and we are so excited to welcome him to our team!
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Pokemon Go is 'gold' for our HoloLens, says Microsoft's CEO
Satya Nadella waxes hopeful that the Pokemon Go boom will translate into increased interest in Microsoft's augmented reality headset.
By Ry Cist as written on www.cnet.com
As Pokemon goes, so goes augmented reality.
That's the hope, at least, for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. He told CNBC that the hugely successful Pokemon Go app, which has millions of people chasing down monsters on real-world streets using their phones, is a phenomenon that spells good things for his company's augmented-reality headset, the HoloLens.
"I think it's fantastic to see these augmented-reality applications getting built, because the best thing that can happen when you're creating a new category is for applications that are these killer apps, whether it be game or in the industrial scenario, to get invested in," Nadella said.
Microsoft has already made a point of demonstrating the potential for gaming in augmented reality, with impressive HoloLens demonstrations that transform living rooms into combat zones and that bring the world of Minecraft to your coffee table.
Pokemon Go, meanwhile, has reinvigorated enthusiasm for Nintendo among both gamers and investors, even as it had developer Niantic Labs scrambling to address privacy concerns that the game unleashed.
Nadella was speaking alongside Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, who agreed that the Pokemon craze -- just barely a week old -- is a clear indicator of the potential for augmented reality to break through. Beyond gaming, both Immelt and Nadella expect augmented reality to have a transformative effect on industry in the coming years.
"I'm not a great gamer, so I can't really say how much that's worth -- but the industrial applications of this are going to be billions of dollars of productivity," Immelt said.
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