

The notification will ask users for permission and then the Mail & Calendar app will run a synchronization and get everything up to speed.īy expanding the Focused Inbox and other features to Gmail accounts, Microsoft is a step closer to bringing feature parity to the Windows 10 Mail & Calendar app, which is suffered from a relative dearth of features compared to the Outlook Mobile apps for iOS and Android.

It’s not available for everyone quite yet, and Windows Insiders will be the first to get a notification when the new functionality arrives for them. Additional Gmail support includes faster and better search and the ability to track travel and package information.įocused Inbox other enhanced functionality has been available for accounts and Office 365 email addresses for a few weeks, and now it’s rolling out for Gmail accounts as well. Emails that the system considers nonessential are shunted to an “Other” tab, to let users spend their time on only the most important items. Focused Inbox uses machine intelligence to guess which messages are most important and then places them under a “Focused” tab in an account’s inbox. The main update that Microsoft is introducing to the Mail & Calendar is Focused Inbox support for Gmail.

Today, the company announced expanded support for Gmail accounts, which will go a long way toward making the Mail & Calendar app more useful for more Windows 10 users. One of the most important is the Mail & Calendar app, which is the default mail app for Windows 10 users and still needs some work to be as good as Microsoft’s Outlook Mobile for iOS and Android. Along the way, the company has also worked to improve its first-party Windows 10 apps. Microsoft has spent tremendous time and energy on improving Windows 10, resulting in the recently released Creators Update and continuing with work on the next major update, Redstone 3.
