Microsoft lets Outlook Web App bring order to mailboxes with Clutter service

Microsoft is adding the Clutter service to the Outlook Web App for Office 365. With this, the webmail client automatically organizes the flow of users’ mail messages, in a manner similar to Gmail’s Priority Inbox. There will also be an Android app for the webmail service.

Clutter is an experimental service that moves mail messages marked as less important to a specific folder in the mailbox. Microsoft uses the Office Graph to map the email behavior of the user and on that basis to predict which email he or she considers important and which is unimportant.

The user can also choose to show the Clutter, by means of a single button. You can then mark which items have been incorrectly marked as unimportant, after which the Outlook Web App ‘learns’ not to move similar mail conversations in the future.

In addition, the Outlook Web App will receive improved integration of Microsoft’s online storage service OneDrive for Business in combination with attachments, where the user can directly set sharing permissions from his mail. Finally, Microsoft announces the Outlook Web App for Android. Last year, the developer already released a version for iOS.