Microsoft adds new option to its email service

Jan 15, 2015 15:28 GMT  ·  By

If you're an avid user of Microsoft's services, the company has just announced a new important update that brings together two of its products.

Starting today, Outlook.com users can easily save email attachments to OneDrive with just a single click, as the company introduced an option available whenever you open documents, pictures, music or videos in the email UI.

The new option is called “Save to OneDrive” and automatically adds your attachments to a new OneDrive folder baptized “Email attachments,” so you can easily access them at a later time.

“You’ll be able to access these files from all your devices (for example, by using the OneDrive mobile app or Office for iPad)–instead of leaving them to clutter your inbox,” Microsoft explains.

The best thing about this new feature is that it works not only with a single file but also with all attachments in your inbox. Basically, you are allowed to save just one attachment to your OneDrive account or all of them as a batch, thus making the process of transferring documents or photos to your cloud account a lot easier.

At the same time, options to save attachments to your local drives are also offered, and again you’re allowed to either save just a single file or all of them as an automatically created ZIP file containing all photos and documents.

The new option is right now being rolled out to Outlook.com accounts across the world, so in case you don't see it at this moment, refresh your browser or try again later.