default_signin_illustration
The image on a leaked download page for Microsoft’s ‘Flow” app.

Despite the growth of messaging platforms, email just won’t go away. But Microsoft is working on a new app, called “Flow,” designed to make it easier to communicate over the decades-old email protocol.

The company hasn’t yet announced the app, but a new download page — marked “Microsoft Confidential” — was spotted by Twitter user @h0x0d, as reported by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley. Here’s the tweet.

This is the how the leaked download page describes the app.

Use Flow with anyone, it’s email: Reach anyone with an email address and all conversations for you and others are also in Outlook. Together, you can use Flow and Outlook interchangeably to participate in the same conversations.

Fast, fluid, natural conversations: No subject lines, salutations, or signatures. Flow is designed for fast, light-weight conversations in real time.

Focus on what’s important: Only conversations started in Flow and their replies show up in Flow, not your whole inbox. Focus on your most important person-to-person conversations without the noise.

Microsoft’s current email app lineup includes the former Acompli apps, rebranded under the Outlook name for iOS and Android, created after the company bought the email app maker last year.  We’ve contacted the company to see if it’s commenting on its release plans for the Flow app.

Like what you're reading? Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline

Job Listings on GeekWork

Find more jobs on GeekWork. Employers, post a job here.