Microsoft Outlook will soon get Gmail-like text prediction, as well as email scheduling functionality

It looks like Microsoft Outlook will soon receive a new feature that will make it easier to compose emails. Outlook on the Web and Outlook.com will both benefit from a text prediction feature similar to that already present in Gmail, revealed a Microsoft support document. As you type, Outlook will suggest words or phrases, like Gmail. At the moment, there is no fixed release date for the feature, but it is expected later this month. In addition, the company is also working on the "send later" function.

Microsoft, in its Help page, described the text prediction function and how it works. Users will receive suggestions for words or phrases when composing their email. In case the text prediction seems adequate, there will be two ways to accept the suggestion, by pressing the Tab key or the right arrow. The suggestion can also be ignored simply by continuing to write. This would remove the suggestion. The company says this feature will reach both Outlook in the web app and Outlook.com.

Microsoft says this feature can also be disabled by going to Configurations > See all Outlook settings > Mail > Write and respond > Textual predictionsand uncheck Suggest words or phrases when writing checkbox For now, the text prediction option is not available in the settings menu. But according to Microsoft 365 public roadmap

The feature is currently marked "In Development" and will be released in "May CY2020".

There is also another feature Microsoft is working on, one of which is "Send Later" for Outlook on the Web. This will allow users to schedule the sending of an email. It is currently also under development and will be released in "Q2 CY2020". This feature has also been available in Gmail for some time.

Microsoft has also introduced an all-weather storm protection feature for its Office 365 users. This feature is intended to help IT teams reduce the impact of full messaging storms that occur due to employee negligence and pressure on the mail servers. It can also lead to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.