New Update New Outlook for Windows will replace the Mail and Calendar apps in Sept. 2024

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Microsoft is not rushing things when it comes to updating Windows 11 users to the new version of Outlook. It started testing it with Microsoft 365 Insiders back in May 2022 and It started rolling out to more users earlier in 2023, but Microsoft stated it would not force users to switch to the new version yet.

Now it looks like there's a timeframe for the switch to the new Outlook for Windows. The good news is that Microsoft is giving businesses and personal Windows users a lot of time to make that transition.

The company revealed its plans in a message on the Microsoft 365 Message Center (via M365Admin) that's only viewable to the admins. Microsoft stated it would begin replacing the current Mail and Calendar apps with the new Outlook for Windows "starting in September 2024."

The interesting terminology indicates that the September 2024 date may not be set in stone and that Microsoft could give businesses and organizations even more time to make any changes before the transition is complete.

The message also added that while no one needs to make any changes right now, users of the Mail and Calendar apps might see a MailTip notification that will inform them of the upcoming change. It may also encourage them to start using the new Outlook for Windows app.

The new Outlook for Windows will start to replace the Mail and Calendar apps in Sept. 2024

The new alert was released via the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Businesses don't need to do anything right now, but they could get a notification on their Mail and Calendar apps in the future.

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Microsoft notes further that the new Outlook for Windows application will be usable by Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscribers, as well as users who use personal email accounts. The latter may use the new Outlook app without a subscription to Microsoft 365 or Office 365.

Windows 11 says goodbye to two apps and joins them in the new Outlook for Windows - gHacks Tech News

Next year, Microsoft will replace the default Mail and Calendar applications of its Windows operating system with the new Outlook for Windows application.

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Microsoft is now "reevaluating the timing" for dumping Mail, Calendar apps with new Outlook

Late last week, Microsoft informed customers of its Microsoft 365 program that it planned to start replacing the current Windows Mail and Calendar apps with the new Outlook app in September 2024. Now it looks like the company is backtracking on that plan, at least for the moment.

Microsoft is now "reevaluating the timing" for dumping Mail, Calendar apps with new Outlook

A newly updated post in the Microsoft 365 Message Center now says the company could possibly change its plans for replacing its Mail and Calendar app with the new Outlook app in September 2024.

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In 2022, Microsoft started testing a new version of Outlook for Windows for Microsoft 365 Insiders. In 2023, it started rolling out this new version as a public preview. Now Microsoft is getting ready to transition users from the older Outlook clients to the new Windows version.

Microsoft Outlook team members discussed plans for the new Windows version in an extended video posted on the Microsoft 365 YouTube channel.

The video featured Robert Navitsky, the Partner Director of Engineering for the Outlook team along with Margie Clinton, who is Microsoft's Principal Group Product Manager for that same team.

Microsoft offers an update on the release of the new Outlook for Windows

The update, posted as an extended video on the Microsoft 365 YouTube channel, went over some of the features in the new Outlook for Windows along with a timeline for its deployment.

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[Jan Willy]

For now for me a no-go:
- no unified inbox (or other unified folders)
- no notifications on desktop

 

[SumTingWong]

Tried out Microsoft Outlook for few weeks and I didn't like it. Everything was a mess.

Mail app is smooth, clean, organize, and easy to use for me.

 

[ForgottenSeer 97327]

For now for me a no-go:
- no unified inbox (or other folders)
- no notifications on desktop

I like my unified inbox and additional folders for categorizing and priotizing stuff

 

[Sammo]

Yeah, and it has no unified inbox and there are ads

 

[Sammo]

For now for me a no-go:
- no unified inbox (or other unified folders)
- no notifications on desktop

And ads unless you pay them a monthly fee

 

[Sammo]

I already have lifetime licenses for eM Client and MailBird

 

[Jan Willy]

And ads unless you pay them a monthly fee

I pay 19,99 euro a year. But this not yet matured product isn't worth.

 

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The new Outlook for Windows email app is now generally available for personal use

Microsoft has just announced that the new Outlook for Windows email app is now generally available for personal email accounts. The new versions of the app has been available in a public preview version since May 2022. You can now download the app on the Microsoft Store.

In a blog post, Microsoft added that the new Outlook will be preinstalled on all new PCs that have the Windows 11 23H2 version installed as well, along with some PCs that will upgrade to 23H2. Microsoft had already hinted the new Outlook app might be installed with the Windows 11 23H2 update.

The new Outlook for Windows email app is now generally available for personal use

The new Outlook for Windows email app is officially available after over a year in a public preview version and will be preinstalled on PCs with Windows 11 version 23H2 and higher.

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The new Outlook for Windows email app is now generally available for personal use

The new Outlook for Windows email app is now generally available for personal use

The new Outlook for Windows email app is officially available after over a year in a public preview version and will be preinstalled on PCs with Windows 11 version 23H2 and higher.

www.neowin.net

To receive desktop notification, the app has to be running in the background always unlike the previous Mail & Calendar app. That's a big turn off.

 

[brambedkar59]

To receive desktop notification, the app has to be running in the background always unlike the previous Mail & Calendar app. That's a big turn off.

On top of that it's bloated as hell, it uses ~500MB when running meanwhile Mail app uses ~70MB. And Mail app is snappy too.

 

[SeriousHoax]

On top of that it's bloated as hell, it uses ~500MB when running meanwhile Mail app uses ~70MB. And Mail app is snappy too.

Yeah, totally. I have kept it installed for now as it seems that the size of the is only about 22 MB. But I don't see myself using it.

 

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Microsoft is now working on offline support for the new Outlook for Windows as well, which was recently released to the public [...]
On the Microsoft 365 roadmap, under the feature ID 178030, Microsoft has added this new item which will allow users to view mail, calendar events, and contacts as they will be stored offline locally on your device automatically. Additionally, mail actions like composing, flagging, moving, and deleting will work too. The feature was added earlier today and it is set to start rolling out next month.

Just like OneDrive, Microsoft says New Outlook for Windows will work without internet too

Microsoft recently released its new Outlook for Windows app. The company is adding new features to it and one of those could be an offline mode for it similar to the one for OneDrive we covered.

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[vtqhtr413]

I applied this update to the desktop app yesterday, it didn't go well, it scrambled my inbox and changed the sort setting among other things. In the end, I had to delete all the messages in the inbox, over 5k, a first for me. I was able to review and recover the recent messages that I wanted from the 'Recently Deleted' folder although I only went back about a year, maxed out my attention span.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Luckily, no such issues here, but there are not that many messages in my inbox.

 

[Sammo]

Still no unified inbox. I'll never use it until it does. Also, you can get rid of ads by putting this in Edge, Chrome, Firefox as DNS server:
https://freedns.controld.com/x-goodbyeads

GoodbyeAds DNS:
76.76.2.43
76.76.10.43
2606:1a40::43
2606:1a40:1::4

- https://freedns.controld.com/x-goodbyeads
- x-goodbyeads.freedns.controld.com
- quic://x-goodbyeads.freedns.controld.com

 

[Ink]

The new Outlook for Windows email app is now generally available for personal use

The new Outlook for Windows email app is now generally available for personal use

The new Outlook for Windows email app is officially available after over a year in a public preview version and will be preinstalled on PCs with Windows 11 version 23H2 and higher.

www.neowin.net

Microsoft Answers: Will the new Outlook for Windows 11 support Exchange ActiveSync accounts?

No, the use of the EAS protocol is not supported and also won't be added. It was available in previous versions of Outlook (2013) to support the old Hotmail/Outlook.com infrastructure but since that has been switched to the Exchange Online infrastructure, EAS support within Outlook has been deprecated in later versions (2016) and even completely removed in current versions.