FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 17mobile use. Play My Emails also allows you to adjust
Cortana with a new voice option that uses neural
voice technology to sound more natural.
Separately, Microsoft is also cracking down on
what mobile data can be accessed via a corporate
and personal email account. Even Outlook lock
screen notifications will be encrypted until unlocked,
Microsoft told us.
On the desktop, Outlook is also adding support
for Meeting Insights, a feature called ‘Up Next’, and
inferred locations, all of which are designed to help
manage your day. If you add a personal calendar, users
will be able to see what time you’ve blocked out for a
dentist appointment, for example, and not schedule
over it. Travel times will also be accounted for (which
Cortana did years ago). It sounds like relevant email
conversations and files will automatically surface
in anticipation of your next meeting. They’ll all be
available by the end of the year.
Cortana, now less a digital companion than an office
assistant, now can automatically book your meetings
with Scheduler, yet another tool for tracking down
open times on shared calendars. Do you remember
how Cortana used to be able to display your day,
together with relevant information, when you clicked
her icon within Windows? That’s being replaced with
a summary ‘briefing email’ from Cortana, which is now
available in preview for Microsoft 365 subscribers.
Finally, Microsoft’s touting Message Recall, the
ability for “users... to recall messages they’ve already
sent”. Does this mean that a user using Outlook will
actually be able to ‘disappear’ an email that wasFEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 17mobile use. Play My Emails also allows you to adjust
Cortanawitha newvoiceoptionthatusesneural
voicetechnology to sound more natural.
Separately, Microsoft is also cracking down on
what mobile data can be accessed via a corporate
and personal email account. Even Outlook lock
screennotificationswillbeencrypteduntilunlocked,
Microsofttold us.
On the desktop, Outlook is also adding support
for Meeting Insights, a feature called ‘Up Next’, and
inferred locations, all of which are designed to help
manage your day. If you add a personal calendar, users
will be able to see what time you’ve blocked out for a
dentist appointment, for example, and not schedule
over it. Travel times will also be accounted for (which
Cortana did years ago). It sounds like relevant email
conversations and files will automatically surface
in anticipation of your next meeting. They’ll all be
available by the end of the year.
Cortana, now less a digital companion than an office
assistant, now can automatically book your meetings
with Scheduler, yet another tool for tracking down
open times on shared calendars. Do you remember
how Cortana used to be able to display your day,
together with relevant information, when you clicked
hericonwithinWindows?That’sbeingreplacedwith
a summary‘briefing email’ from Cortana, which is now
available in preview for Microsoft 365 subscribers.
Finally, Microsoft’s touting Message Recall, the
ability for “users... to recall messages they’ve already
sent”. Does this mean that a user using Outlook will
actually be able to ‘disappear’ an email that was