Hotmail for Android, iOS updated with smarter address book and calendar tweaks

Viewpoint may have been late to the versatile email diversion, yet Microsoft is pouring on the updates to attempt and prevail upon you. 

The most recent changes, declared on the Microsoft Office blog, updates the People area, changing it into an appropriate address book. It currently shows a brought together perspective of everybody in your address book, where already it just demonstrated your "best contacts." 

There are currently activities fixing to each contact. You can email them, begin a telephone call, outline path to their area, or see your past correspondence.

 Microsoft Office Blog

Hotmail gives you more details about your contacts and lets you permanently delete messages.

Citing the “unique controls provided by Android,” the version for Google’s mobile OS will also pull in the contacts stored on your device, instead of only those tied to your email accounts.

It’s now easier to find a contact when starting an email. A new search capability will auto-suggest among your contact directory using Global Address List search, especially useful if you’re in a large organization using an Exchange server.

When you search through your email, your search term is highlighted throughout the results, just as it would be when searching through a Word document. You can also “select all” to perform bulk operations on messages inside a folder. These additions are iOS-only for now, though Microsoft says it’s bringing them to Android.

Additionally, the embedded calendar now transforms to a three-day view when turning your device to landscape mode. Other small updates include the ability to permanently delete messages and undo any bulk actions.

The story behind the story: Microsoft’s new Office strategy is to make its core apps available across all major platforms. Instead of building an email app from scratch, Microsoft bought the popular app Accompli and rebranded it as Hotmail login. Since then it’s been cranking out the updates, pushing Hotmail as your all-in-one email and calendar solution.