Microsoft releases Outlook app out on iPhone and iPad: OWA - iphoneclub.nl

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 (19:25) | Bart Breij

Microsoft has two separate applications for Outlook addresses on the iPhone and iPad. OWA is the name that the Outlook app has been given. Both platforms Still, the app is not necessarily a reason to make a hole to jump if you like Hotmail user for a long time was looking for a good mailapp in the air. The application is in fact only be used in combination with Office 365, the new business plan that you can fall in conjunction with the previously released Microsoft Office for 99 euros per year for the mobile iPhone.

The system of the new mailapp are high. On the iPad You can not use the mailapp with iPad first generation, the phone version will pass you by if you have an older iPhone a iPhone 4S have. Even if you have the right equipment, many users of Microsoft closes the latest version of the business Office 365 subscription required. With your Hotmail account you get nowhere in the application.

The application uses sweeping movements in a different way than

most new mail apps on the iPhone and iPad. A flick through the inbox lets you navigate to other pages here, so you can quickly switch between all mails, unread mails, mails addressed to you and flagged e-mails. At the bottom you can with the blue bar access your different folders, mail search, writing a new mail and to approach your calendar. This is the agenda that you share with colleagues or co-workers through the Office subscription, also taking into account agents to resist appointments or invite other colleagues for example.

A special feature of OWA for iPhone and iPad is the fact that you can search using your voice. contacts on In addition, Microsoft emphasizes that company be held in the app safely. Also, an additional password, besides that of your account, set.

Office Mobile got low ratings in the App Store because of the requirement for a subscription to use the application. It seems that Microsoft wanted to avoid the made. Clearly the name of the app further negative criticism From ‘Office Mobile for Office 365 “to” Office Mobile Office 365 subscribers. That clarity does not apply to the new Outlook app.

Download: OWA for iPhone (free, iPhone 4S + iOS 6.0 +)
Download: OWA for iPad (free, iPad 2 +, iOS 6.0 +)