Apr 03, 2019 10:35:00

Gmail has reached the 15th anniversary of its service, and finally it has introduced a transmission reservation function

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Gmail, a free email service provided by Google since 2004, has reached 15 years since its launch on April 1, 2019. Taking this opportunity, Google announced in the official blog that it added the function to send and reserve a pre-created email in Gmail.

15 years and counting—making Gmail work faster and smarter for businesses | Google Cloud Blog
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/15-years-and-counting-making-gmail-work-faster-and-smarter-for-businesses

Gmail, which started service on April 1, 2004, was initially registered as an account by invitation using SMS. After that, the official version of the service was launched, and it became possible for Japan to create a Gmail account without an invitation from August 23, 2006. In November 2012, it has been reported that it has become the world's largest email service by overtaking MSN's free email service 'Hotmail'.

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According to a report by research firm International Data Corporation, by 2020, mobile workers who work from any time and place are expected to account for approximately 72.3% of the working population in the United States. Given this data, Google said, 'I know that I may carry over my work outside working hours, but it's important to keep in mind everyone's downtime,' and announced that it has added a send reservation function to Gmail. Did.

By adding a sending reservation function, it will be possible to send at a specified time by setting the schedule after writing mail as usual. By clicking on the image below, you can see how to set the e-mail transmission time with a GIF movie (about 4.2 MB).

In addition, 'Smart Compose', which supports mail composition with AI, has been enhanced, and it has been clarified that it supports Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. With the introduction of Smart Compose, AI will be able to present sentence completion candidates while entering mail, so it will not be necessary to manually input all the text in the mail.

“Email is at the core of business,” said Jacob Bank, director of product management at G Suite. “Even if you've been using Gmail for 15 years, or if you're 15 days old, we're I would like to thank everyone who shared this long journey, and I hope the email will be smarter and more convenient for you. '