Gmail Labs offers preview pane -- a Microsoft Outlook style-- to read email.
To activate this feature,
-click gear icon on top-right section,
-select labs, scroll down to view Preview Pane
-thick enable to enable it
-save your new setting, you will be brought back to Gmail home page.
Select vertical split to view your email in Outlook-style.
Although this is not an innovation, Yahoo and Hotmail do it earlier, but Gmail user now may chose better and more comfortable way to read and arrange email.
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