Why is the "play my emails" feature in outlook being retired in June 2024? I use it for 2 hours everyday, and it makes me much more efficient.

Anonymous
2024-05-21T22:54:42+00:00

Why is the "play my emails" feature in outlook being retired in June 2024? I use it for 2 hours everyday, and it makes me much more efficient. Will it be replaced by another feature that reads my emails within Microsoft outlook?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-24T03:18:19+00:00

    Please bring it back Microsoft. I also used it during commuting to catch up on my emails as I have too many to read during work hours and have a 2 hour commute each way, so this was a HUGE productivity boost!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-17T18:15:20+00:00

    I have a great recommendation for the Microsoft team.

    These types of mistakes in the product management level happen frequently at Microsoft.
    This feature was the only one useful feature on the outlook mobile app and is being removed without an alternative. The alternative is Copilot? and when I search what it can do , reading your emails out loud is not one of them.

    I have a solution for you. Fire those that made this decision, and that will ensure this type of blunder will never happen again.
    If the product manager doesn't use this feature on a daily basis, it should not be a product manage to make the decision.

    Microsoft is the master of taking useful features away.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-13T09:07:45+00:00

    I faced the exact same scenario. "Ditto"

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-05T12:26:57+00:00

    Microsoft shut it off the last week of May for everyone.

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