Outlook for Windows gets new time-management capabilities with Office 365

Outlook Calendar for Windows has picked upwards some new features in Office 365 this week, all aimed at helping you manage your time more effectively. In a blog mail service this week (via MSPU), Microsoft detailed a wide variety of new features built directly from user feedback.

Boot things off is a new pick in the meeting form to specify required and optional attendees while making it faster to create invites. And while y'all're putting together invites, Microsoft will at present suggest names of people you work with as you start typing out attendees.

Also speeding things up is the ability to set default durations for meetings, along with the ability to reserve multiple rooms in multiple locations via the Room Finder. Microsoft is also working to limit defoliation due to time zone differences, and each attendee volition now see meetings in their local time instead of the organizer's.

Rounding things out is attendee tracking, which provides tracking information on who is invited and who has responded for organizers and attendees. Organizers tin can also now utilize the "Response Options" card to permit or disable forwarding of invites to others by optional attendees.

These features are available now in the Office 365 Monthly Channel, Microsoft says.

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