Microsoft has many plans for the Outlook application, but also for the data from your emails outside of Microsoft. It’s been leaked that now Microsoft will be able to sync the contents related to external email accounts, as seen in the user testing phase.
Recently, Microsoft unveiled its roadmap for Outlook, but now they’re also making it clear that they’re not only interested in you updating your Microsoft Outlook email, but also in you allowing your data related to other emails to be managed from their servers.
New to Outlook, but not to the industry
It’s not something entirely new, as other brands like Google already allow managing emails from other companies within their Gmail application. However, it is something completely new within the Microsoft ecosystem, which historically has been reluctant to be compatible with other services or systems without significant reasons. Well, attracting users to its ecosystem is more important than ever.
Among the messaging services that Microsoft details as compatible are major brands like Gmail, iCloud, or Yahoo, which gather a large percentage of users (especially Google). Therefore, if you’re interested in integrating your email within Outlook, very soon you’ll be able to manage it within the Microsoft ecosystem itself.
The advancements of Outlook as a service
Microsoft has made a significant leap in investment in its productivity services in recent years. After many years without substantial changes or those that didn’t succeed in their segment (such as Cortana, abandoned in favor of Copilot), Microsoft’s messaging service is investing a lot of time and money in improving its platform and attracting more users.
Outlook, in fact, is one of the applications that will benefit greatly from Copilot’s existence, Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence created to provide support to users in various ways across many of its core apps, including Edge, Microsoft Designer, and others. Therefore, Outlook has a golden opportunity to position itself as a viable alternative to the powerful dominance that Google currently holds in emails, with Gmail at the forefront.
