Microsoft is developing a chat-type lightweight mail application "Flow" for the iPhone

ByKārlis Dambrāns

Mail application for iPhoneOutlook for iOSMicrosoft is offering a new mail application "It is possible to quickly extract and exchange e-mails with important conversations"FlowIt is now clear that it is under development.

Microsoft looks to be building a new light-weight email app called Flow | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-looks-to-be-building-a-new-light-weight-email-app-called-flow/

The application under development is called Flow, and Twitter users@ HoxodDiscovered the download page written as "Microsoft Confidential" (Microsoft internal secret), the existence of the application became clear. The application name displayed on the page is "Flow by Outlook", and from the summary column of the application you can see that Flow is being developed for the iPhone.

Well Microsoft, if it really confidential, do not put it on publicly accessible Internet, LOL.Pic.twitter.com/BX0Bw0SpKw

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According to the explanation on the download page, Flow says that the mail subject, greeting, and signature are omitted and the main text is displayed in chat form, not only displaying all the mails in the inbox but only important mails It seems to be extracted and displayed. If you want to read all the mail, it is OK if you use the existing Outlook for iOS application.

The appearance of Flow under development is as follows.

First look at Microsoft's new micro-email app, Flow
http://www.neowin.net/news/first-look-at-microsoft039s-new-micro-email-app-flow

It seems that specification of only the body of the mail is displayed as a list in chat form.


The appearance that e-mail is divided for each sender is more like a chat application than a mail application.


In ZDnet, Flow's "fast and lightweight" design concept is a video chat application for Android · iOS · Windows Phone released by Microsoft in 2014 "Skype QikWe analyze that it resembles. Skype Qik is an application that allows you to video chat with faster and lighter motion than SMS or Instant Messenger if you have even a mobile phone number.


In addition, when ZDnet contacted Microsoft, we could not get any answers about Flow at this time.