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Microsoft reveals plans for new Web-based Outlook features (arstechnica.com)
8 points by samizdis on May 11, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



So when are we going to get an Outlook calendar widget for Android that shows the whole month?


Have you tried Nine?

https://www.9folders.com/en/index.html

Best Exchange/O365 mail client I've found for Android. Has a month calendar widget as well.


Thank you for the suggestion. There are plenty of third party options, but I'm still really hoping for something official. It's weird that Microsoft goes as far as to make an Android launcher but not a month calendar view.


I'm far more bothered by the insane waste of real estate in the calendar module's single day view. I just about get 9:00-17:30 which feels a bit claustrophobic for a view that's supposed to give an overview of the entire day.

Outlook's own 3 days at once view shows 9:00-19:30 which is much better, nevermind Google's single day view which manages 9:00-22:00

For some strange reason, the single day view and 3-day view in Outlook have different UIs, Google's 3-day and week views are just the day view squished as it should be.

The landscape mode week view in Outlook is a similar disaster, giving coverage from 9:00 to 12:30 again wasting a small city's worth of screen real estate on the all day view. Week view in Google Calendar manages 9:00 to 15:00 turned sideways.

Outlook has to include the bottom bar for module switching because of how the app's setup, but as far as the controls at the top go, MS could really stand to steal from Google. The more shamelessly, the better.


Outlook Android is just Acompli, a third-party app Microsoft purchased and rebranded.

Same goes for their Android calendar app, it used to be Sunrise Calendar.




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