You can sync mail from your Exchange server to your Windows 8 device — without affecting data from the Mail, Calendar and People apps, as TouchDown uses its own database for Exchange data. Slide up from the bottom of the screen to open a contextual app bar. Mail can be flagged and tagged, and there are filters to help you show only unread mail, as well as a folder view that lets you choose what folders to sync.
You can also choose to switch between a day view and a week view for calendars. Early versions had very few options, but the latest builds have added many more features and configuration tools to go with them. With support for IRM on the horizon, and with many other enterprise security features being added, TouchDown for Windows 8 looks to be the missing enterprise mail client that Windows RT devices like the Surface have been crying out for. If you do decide to try out the beta, don't rely on it for all your mail.
This is beta code that's still changing, and to make sure you understand this, each time you start up you're shown a changelog that lets you know when to download a new version. There are still rough edges in the TouchDown beta, and you'll need to update regularly as the team fixes bugs and rolls out new code — especially as it adds improved security policy support.
We're not entirely sure about the rounded corners in the panes in the app, a design point that harkens after TouchDown's original Android version. It's a little disconcerting compared to the clean right-angles of Windows 8's modern design. When finished and finally approved by the Windows Store we understand it's recently been submitted , TouchDown on Windows 8 — and especially Windows RT — looks as though it will be close to the mobile mail app Windows 8 needs.
Even as an early beta, it's functional, fast and, above all, gives you many of the features conspicuously missing from Microsoft's own Mail app. Windows 8 needs more Windows Store apps like this: apps that push the envelope and show that you can use the WinRT environment to deliver enterprise-grade code that doesn't hide features or simply clone a website or reformat a news feed.
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Windows 8. Sign in to vote. It wont sync. I have rebooted my surface but that didn't fix the issue.
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