14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has just released an important update for the Mail and Calendar app on Windows 10 Mobile, introducing some new features, but also several bug fixes that are supposed to improve the overall performance of the app.
And since Windows 10 Mobile is still work in progress (except on new Lumia phones, where it’s offered as a stable build), such improvements certainly come in handy.
New features
First and foremost, the update comes with options to add holidays to your calendar, but also with the possibility of seeing an entire year at a glance with Year view. Previously, the best you could get was a monthly view of your appointments, so this is clearly a significant improvement for those who rely on their phone to organize their calendar.
Additionally, you can move messages to a folder of your choice thanks to a new option included by Microsoft in the Quick Action swipe menu, in addition to delete, archive, flag, and other tools.
And last but not least, the new version allows you to add attachments by simply pasting them into the body of the message, which pretty much replicates the behavior that you get on a desktop client, and this was probably Microsoft’s idea in the first place since Outlook is also available on Windows 10 PCs.
The Mail and Calendar app receives updates on a regular basis, and all these improvements come in handy especially because it still feels slow and buggy at certain moments. The Outlook client available on Android and iOS seems to be faster and better optimized, and Microsoft can’t afford to make its Windows 10 Mobile version inferior to the ones on rival platforms.
As usual, the new Windows 10 Mobile version of Mail and Calendar can be found in the store. With the default store configuration, app updates are automatically downloaded and installed, so if your phone has already gotten the new version, the chances are that it’s there and running.