Until recently, accessing your Exchange-hosted email and calendar on a smartphone was a bit of a trick. On Windows, where you can either browse via a website or a native app like Outlook, reading email is rather basic. And so is the Mail app, as it turns out.
Mail follows Microsoft’s free productivity app strategy—it does nearly everything you want: reading email, browsing attachments, even giving you modern conveniences like Microsoft’s Clutter, which filters out the less-important email that doesn’t quite qualify as spam. About the only real deficiency I noted was Microsoft Edge’s inability to open a PDF file that had been emailed to me, as well as the lack of outof- office notifications. Well, that and the lack of a standard signature file and out-of-office notifications. For that, you’ll need Outlook. Mail has definitely improved. When I tried to hunt down an old email a week or so back, Mail couldn’t find it. Now it can, across Exchange and Outlook and more.
As you might expect, Mail doesn’t maintain the tabs that Gmail does (Promotions, Social, Updates, and the like), instead dumping them all out into one giant stream. The related Calendar app can also be a bit crowded once you let in all the stuff you sort of have to tolerate: the inevitable birthdays of Facebook friends, U.S. holidays, plus your personal and work calendars. There aren’t any quick to-do lists, though—in Microsoft’s world, that’s OneNote’s domain.
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