Love, smile, cry, thank, dislike… These and other reactions will soon be incorporated by users when exchanging emails via Outlook. That is, if Microsoft implements the updates that the company has been working on for its email management software. electronic messages. The idea was revealed in the very company page and is listed as “in development”, with a release date scheduled for March 2021.

“Outlook on the web is expanding the existing ability to like email messages with a thumbs-up icon. In addition to liking, users will be able to add sentiments of love, laughter, celebration, thanks or showing sadness,” Microsoft said, confident in the success of the project that will bring the most common social media reactions to emails viewed in Outlook.

How will it work?

According to a message posted on Microsoft support page, it should work in a similar way to the existing “thumbs up”, the famous “thumbs up”, which signals that someone liked your email. Currently, if you receive an email “liked” by other people, just hover your mouse over the thumbs up symbol to see the names of those who liked the message.

Microsoft did not explain, however, whether the idea of ​​introducing reactions to emails could not transform outlook in a less professional way, since it would bring it closer to social networks, nowadays centers of many controversies and discussions, mainly in political scope. Email would be one of the last pillars that survives while maintaining its corporate characteristic – and is even a reason to warn employees of many companies not to use the tool for any other purpose.

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