![]() “The Outlook userbase will certainly be excited about this.” White also argued that most of the email clients that now ship with mobile devices are pretty basic, but “people want to do more than just basic email triage” on them. “They live up to the Outlook promise,” she told me. In our interview, White stressed that the Outlook apps aren’t just meant for email triage. More than anything, though, it probably speaks to how good the Acompli apps were already. ![]() What is a surprise, though, is that Microsoft went ahead and decided to relaunch the apps under the Outlook moniker this quickly. Microsoft has already added a few minor Office-app like touches, including a colored ribbon-like UI, but if you’ve ever used Acompli’s apps, the new Outlook apps will mostly feel like a rebrand of that service. It’s no surprise then that the Outlook apps will look and feel quite a bit like the original Acompli apps, too. “We brought that team in and it’s now a core part of the our Outlook team,” she told me. The new applications, Microsoft’s general manager of its Office division Julia White told me earlier this week, are based on the technology Microsoft acquired when it bought the email app Acompli for $200 million last year.
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