In cursory: Have you lot ever felt the need to respond to an email with an instant express joy or sad face, every bit popularized by social media and messaging platforms? Probably not. Nevertheless, Microsoft is introducing them in a hereafter update for Outlook that will add together Facebook-style reactions.

Microsoft's product roadmap shows a feature in development chosen "Outlook for the spider web: React to an electronic mail message." Information technology describes users being able to react to an electronic mail without sending one of their own through a range of reactions.

"Outlook on the web is expanding the existing ability to like e-mail messages with a thumbs upwardly icon. In addition to likes, users volition exist able to add sentiment for dearest, laughter, commemoration, thanks or evidence sadness," Microsoft writes.

Beingness able to Like an email has been a feature in Outlook for the web for years. Instead of writing a answer, you can click on the thumbs-up icon in the upper-right corner of an email. If someone Likes your message, a thumbs-up icon appears in the email with a number indicating how many Likes it received—you can also hover over the icon to see the names of those who Liked information technology.

Information technology appears Microsoft decided but existence able to show one'southward appreciation for an email wasn't enough and will exist introducing a range of new emotions. They're expected to arrive for the Outlook web app former in March.

The Like button still isn't available on Outlook'due south desktop app, so information technology seems the new reactions are as well express to the web version—which will probably come as welcome news to many users.

How do you experience about the merging of reactions and emails? A terrible idea or a natural evolution in keeping with the times?

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