Most people generally receive far too many e-mails. Microsoft's solution to this unwanted flood is a new tool called "Clutter."

Clutter is an inbox tool for Office 365 business customers that helps them prioritize what they need to see first after opening their Outlook accounts.

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The Clutter tool was first released at Microsoft's Exchange Conference. Its main goal is to separate important emails from those that need less priority.

Clutter is likened to Gmail's "Inbox" stand-alone app released earlier this month. In Clutter, the messages the system thinks a user will ignore will be separated and placed in folder called, aptly enough, "Clutter."

Messages in this folder can still be viewed anytime but won't appear in the main inbox of the user's account.

Microsoft said people can proactively mark e-mails so these fall under the Clutter folder. Clutter will then be trained to learn about items you choose to move, and this will be a pattern for the system.

Clutter can be enabled from the Outlook Web App options menu. Other businesses that couldn't join the First Release program will get the updates at later this month.

Microsoft said it doesn't have plans to release Clutter to non-business Office 365 users.

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