Would you like Microsoft Outlook to make recommendations about the tone of your emails? This might be for you.
Short version:
This new feature for Microsoft Editor in Outlook on the web will offer writing refinements to suggest changes to tone. These suggestions will (according to Microsoft) allow you to communicate more clearly and in a desired tone to deter misinterpretation. Due early to late September for Outlook on the web.
Details:
This new feature for Microsoft Editor in Outlook on the web will offer writing refinements to suggest changes to tone. These suggestions will (according to Microsoft) allow you to communicate more clearly and in a desired tone to deter misinterpretation.
As a you type, the Editor scans what’s written and will generate rewrite suggestions with improved conversation tone.
This feature will rollout default off, and you can enable this by clicking the edit button to surface Microsoft Editor Settings where you can select Tone.
Note: These suggestions come from AI models run on the same servers as a users’ mailbox within the organisation and no message content is transmitted or stored outside of your organisation.
Availability:
Due early to late September for Outlook on the web.
Comment:
I’m not sure what I think about this, I do of course assume good intentions and know this will help a lot of people. But, along with the other ‘refinements’ (see second image, above) I wonder if some of the richness will be lost from our different writing styles with one organisation deciding what is ‘correct’? It would be great to hear your views on this in the comments below.
