Microsoft is rolling out Uber, PayPal and Evernote add-ins for Outlook

Microsoft launched four add-ins on Wednesday, connecting Outlook to Evernote and the email scheduling service Boomerang, as well as Uber and PayPal.

The other announcement from Microsoft today concerns partner add-ins. Starting today, the PayPal add-in is available in Outlook 2013 and Outlook on the web for users with Office 365 and Exchange 2013 mailboxes. And it is announcing new partnerships with Evernote, IFTTT, Wunderlist and Yelp to provide Outlook add-ins down the road.

For instance, the company said that in Uber, the user could get a ride to a meeting or event with the ride reminder in any calendar event through a single tap.

PayPal’s add-in will allow for quick and easy money transfer between friends and family right through the inbox.

This overhaul in the Outlook.com is more than just a reshaping of the user interface to be more like Office 365, as it is part of Microsoft’s plans reported earlier this year to migrate Outlook.com accounts to the same back-end infrastructure as Office 365.

In respect of Evernote, the user could share his or her work with colleagues. You can also clip emails from Outlook straight to Evernote, where you can then save them in notebooks and add tags.

With the new Boomerang add-in, you can schedule a mail to be sent at a later time, or set a reminder of someone hasn’t replied to an important mail for quite some time.

(On a side note, I’ve often complained about Microsoft over-using the Outlook brand on various products, but the ability to use the same add-ins across these products makes the branding less onerous.).

If you are a developer you can try out the new REST APIs here and the Outlook dev team also posted details here on what is and isn’t supported now in this preview of the new Outlook.com service. Wunderlist and Yelp will as well, arrive soon on Outlook and Office 365. The Outlook.com preview, which was only made available for a selected number of preview users, has also been expanded to reach a wider audience, according to Microsoft.