Sure, Gmail has its converts, and many millennials shun email entirely for iMessage, Snapchat and other alternatives. But the world still has plenty of power email users and, for them, Outlook is as comforting and familiar as a pair of fleece pajamas.
This is why Microsoft’s release on Thursday of the first real Outlook for mobile devices, including iPads, iPhones and their Android variants, is a milestone. For Microsoft, it underscores how far the company has come from the days when it tried to use its Office suite of applications, of which Outlook is a member, to hurt Apple and Google Android devices by not making the software available on them.
Eventually, the company figured out it was only hurting Office’s profile among mobile users by doing this, and finally made amends by releasing iPhone, iPad and Android versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint last year.
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