Outlook has been around for a long time one of the leading combinations of email clients and services. Recall that Microsoft removed this brand from Windows for a while and replaced it with a minimalist email client that was present in its operating system. However, since the beginning of 2021, we have learned about One Outlook, a project with which those from Redmond were going to unify their email solutions on all platforms, which I think is a pretty smart move.

At the beginning of this year, we learned that the landing of Outlook on Windows is already very close, because Microsoft enabled in Mail the possibility of testing the then preview of the new client, and throughout this year we have seen and experienced a lot of progress in this regard, in addition to verifying that the plans companies are quite ambitious as they intend to bring this new Outlook as a free email client, much further than Outlook Express at the time (Outlook Express, how many hours…).

While there are opinions for every taste, I personally like the new Outlook for Windows, I won’t say it’s the best email client I know, but it makes up for a lot of the shortcomings of the previous Windows client. However, Microsoft seems to have focused on it so much that its web version has relegated it to second place, meaning that the Windows app with some function that we cannot find in the online interface.

A very clear example of this is the message translation feature, and the fact that the Windows client offers the ability to translate emails that come to us, something that the web doesn’t have… although I’d say it wasn’t because Microsoft has started rolling out translation functionality in Outlook webas stated on the page road map Microsoft 365. This new feature has been assigned ID 164486 and is said to be rolling out in September.

And more precisely, at what time in September? Since I don’t know if the deployment is progressive or absolute, I can confirm that in my case the translation feature is already available in Outlook. What’s more, in the image above you can see the same message, on the left in Outlook for Windows and on the right in Outlook web (yes, it’s obviously spam, but at least in this case it had the noble purpose of serving to illustrate the news). The translation feature will appear above the message in both cases.

I remember, yes, what we are talking about built-in translation of incoming messages, the ones we receive, not the translation of the ones we write to send. It will be necessary to use some external service for this purpose, although we can hope that the new Bing will arrive in Outlook for this purpose sooner or later.