In the future, Microsoft developers will give Outlook app users the opportunity to respond to a message with a thumb, a laugh or other reactions.

The feature should be available in a preview version in July. This option has now become standard among messaging tools. Just a few weeks ago, WhatsApp took this step to be able to react quickly to received messages using emoji. ( HERE )

E-mail communication clearer

Reactions bring great advantages, especially with emails. This means that not everyone has to respond to a circular email to a large group of recipients with their own email, but rather simply mark the circular email received with a reaction of their choice. This significantly increases clarity because the sender's mailbox is not overflowing and the senders of the reactions save time.

Technical implementation still unclear

It is still unclear what the exact technical implementation will be and what options users of other email programs will have. For example, will reactions only be visible to the sender of the outgoing email or is there an option to make them visible to all recipients of an email? Similar to the reply function, where you only reply to the sender or reply to all recipients.

Thumbs up, laugh, heart, celebrate, or shed a tear in reaction to emails in Outlook.

Apply your sentiment and see the reaction of others in emails in Outlook without sending or receiving incremental emails. Thumbs up, laugh, heart, celebrate or cry in response to emails in Outlook. Apply your feelings and see others' reactions to emails in Outlook without sending or receiving more emails.

Source: Microsoft Roadmap translated with Deepl

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How useful will the email responses prove to be? In social networks, reactions as interactions are part of the platform DNA and have a direct influence on both the algorithm and thus the reach, the visibility of content, as well as the well-being of the users. Emails follow a different principle. It remains to be seen what significance the reactions will receive here.

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