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Microsoft Launches Outlook for iOS with iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo Mail Support

mirzank said:
Wait what??! So with the new version of outlook I'll need to pay monthly/annual fee, instead of just purchasing the software straight up like we do now??
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Only the version released a couple months ago. There's a new version of Office coming out this year, which will include another new version of Outlook. This will be available to both outright purchasers and O365 subscribers.

petvas said:
Yes. Software as a service

I don't see it as a bad thing. Actually I prefer this licensing model. For 99€/year you get up to five Office installations, unlimited OneDrive and the ability to share your licenses with your family and friends.
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There are still many people that prefer the old model. As long as they offer both, then they'll do well. The problem will be if they decide to force the general consumer into the SaaS route. A lot of people do not need 5 installations, or care about OneDrive space, hell, I haven't even used all of the free space I have.
 
Shaun said:
You still need to have an Office 365 Business Premium subscription to make it work. From what I can see it doesn't give you a whole lot more than the standard Outlook.com email which is free. Unless you use Outlook at work I think there are better options for iOS users.

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I'm logged into mine now. Not had any problems with it and I use it every day.
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You can use iCloud.com with Office 365 Home Premium as well. I set it up with no problem.
 
Spaceboy88 said:
I can get my email to work, but none of my calendars show up in this app. Anyone else have this problem?
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Initially my iCloud calendars were also not working, but I tapped the menu icon on the calendar in the upper left corner and my calendar list showed up. I then turned them all on and now my calendar is showing up.
 
ScottNWDW said:
Initially my iCloud calendars were also not working, but I tapped the menu icon on the calendar in the upper left corner and my calendar list showed up. I then turned them all on and now my calendar is showing up.
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Strange - when I click that, I get "You must add an account with at least one calendar to be able to choose calendars to display" even though I have 3 calendars in my iCloud account and it's successfully added to Outlook.
 
JeffyTheQuik said:
My first reaction to this was, "It's 2015."

My more sensible and less belittling response to this is that Outlook for Mac 2011 (again, it's 2015! Hey Microsoft!) required Exchange 2010, and I thought that was a bit of a gift to Microsoft. I'm still trying to figure out why the core of Exchange, which is e-mail and it's interface to the world as OWA has been around since forever, so why aren't core services, like e-mail, tasks, contacts, and calendars *not* included with every client, and the additional features of Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013, whatever is next added as a cherry on the top?

In short, it looks like an edict like: "YOU MUST UPGRADE to be able to read your e-mail" Please make the $1500 check payable to your local partner. Oh yeah, you have to upgrade your server too, so make out another $3000 check to your local partner, along with $4000 Dell, IBM, or HP. Your small business can afford $8500, until next time, right? It is, after all, so you can get your e-mail on your iphone.
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Well said. Our company owns 2013 but we are not live yet, still on 2003. I can connect iOS to server 03, but not this.
 
My company already has banned it because it is caching mail and login details on Microsoft servers. Hopefully they'll fix this issue soon.
 
In using the the calendar portion of the app, it appears that you can't setup recurring events. Also, it doesn't let you edit existing events that you setup via google calendar. Not sure if it allows this on the exchange side.

Also I noticed when you decline an event in the calendar, it does not remove it but makes it a shaded color. It appears you have to use the delete icon to remove it from the calendar.

I like the integration it brings but seems to need a little more work.
 
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casheddie said:
In using the the calendar portion of the app, it appears that you can't setup recurring events. Also, it doesn't let you edit existing events that you setup via google calendar. Not sure if it allows this on the exchange side.

Also I noticed when you decline an event in the calendar, it does not remove it but makes it a shaded color. It appears you have to use the delete icon to remove it from the calendar.

I like the integration it brings but seems to need a little more work.
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It needs a lot more work. As a pure mail app right now, I can't see any reason to use this over the built in mail app. In fact, there are reasons NOT to use it. For all non-Outlook.com emails, I somehow can't get the app to display my full name to recipients rather than just my email address. So recipients end up seeing amplelink@gmail.com rather than Mr. Amplel Ink when they get one of my emails.
 
Amplelink said:
It needs a lot more work. As a pure mail app right now, I can't see any reason to use this over the built in mail app. In fact, there are reasons NOT to use it. For all non-Outlook.com emails, I somehow can't get the app to display my full name to recipients rather than just my email address. So recipients end up seeing amplelink@gmail.com rather than Mr. Amplel Ink when they get one of my emails.
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You can set up a signature for each email account.
 
Read the Privacy Policy for the Outlook app very carefully before you decide to use it.

https://www.acompli.com/privacy-policy...

Microsoft stores the account info of any account you add to the app on their servers. For accounts like GMail, it stores an OAuth token, but for accounts like Yahoo and Exchange, it's storing actually the email address and passwords.

It also stores mail, calendar and contact data on their servers for all accounts. This is used to provide push notifications for Mail and Calendars since iOS doesn't allow polling in the background.

I don't think I trust Microsoft to: a) not use this data and b) protect the data from hackers.

Even if you do trust Microsoft, it's highly unlikely your company's security policy would allow storing company mail and access credentials on Microsoft's servers.
 
tigres said:
Well said. Our company owns 2013 but we are not live yet, still on 2003. I can connect iOS to server 03, but not this.
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Thank you. The first reaction was my "Big Corporation, we have Software Assurance, or whatever it's called now, so we get free* upgrades!" vs. the Small Business, "dude, we have to think 7-10 years out, and we can't be upgrading every 2-3 years, no matter how fantastical the software is."

Even those with SA had to have a reason to upgrade. Even when the software is free, the loss in productivity isn't when they go from Office 2003 to Office 2007.

(I guess this shows how long I've been out of the MS Partner game.)
 
petvas said:
I tried the Outlook for iOS App with my Exchange Office 365 account and I am not impressed. There are still things missing that should be expected from Microsoft.
  • Cannot set OOF
  • No support for Exchange categories
  • cannot access public folders
  • cannot set the amount of data to store offline
  • cannot access contacts folder on Exchange mailbox
  • Cannot move an appointment to a different calendar
  • no support for Exchange tasks
  • no month view in calendar
  • no week view in calendar

The app has potential but cannot replace the standard mail.app for me. At least not yet.

The only thing I really like is the integration with DropBox, OneDrive and the ability to access attachments from other mails.
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Add "cannot switch off conversation thread view", unless I'm missing something.
 
I don't understand the contacts system. Why can't I sync/integrate my iCloud contacts? Only recently used contacts show. This is an easy feature, which a lot of apps have.
 
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mirzank said:
Yep gonna wait it out. Mail.app would only let me archive gmail but I loved that acompli gave me the option to delete or archive. Hope it something they missed and will get fixed.
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Mail app on iPhone... settings-->mail, contacts, calendar-->Gmail account-->account-->advanced-->delete mailbox or archive mailbox
 
Morac said:
Read the Privacy Policy for the Outlook app very carefully before you decide to use it.

https://www.acompli.com/privacy-policy...

Microsoft stores the account info of any account you add to the app on their servers. For accounts like GMail, it stores an OAuth token, but for accounts like Yahoo and Exchange, it's storing actually the email address and passwords.

It also stores mail, calendar and contact data on their servers for all accounts. This is used to provide push notifications for Mail and Calendars since iOS doesn't allow polling in the background.

I don't think I trust Microsoft to: a) not use this data and b) protect the data from hackers.

Even if you do trust Microsoft, it's highly unlikely your company's security policy would allow storing company mail and access credentials on Microsoft's servers.
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Why did you link the privacy policy for a different app?

Edit- I see the privacy policy for Outlook links to the Acompli policy. Unusual to me they haven't created their own for this app.
 
It's a shame about the privacy thing if it's true the data is still being routed through third party servers & isn't direct to our own.

If they got rid of that I'd definitely replace Mail.app with it.
 
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