Microsoft's Outlook Mobile Apps Get More Polish--And Just A Dash Of Sunrise

New versions of the email/calendar app for iOS and Android do the same things as before, with more panache.

When Microsoft introduced the first version of Outlook for iOS and Android last January, it was a very, very late entrant to the mobile email and calendaring race. Instead of building something from scratch—as Microsoft is normally wont to do—the company had acquired a startup called Acompli and given it the ultimate stamp of approval by rebranding its apps as Outlook. It swam against the mobile-app tide—which currently favors unbundling features into discrete apps—by packing ambitious email, calendar, and cloud-storage features into one experience.

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