Tuesday, June 20th 2023
Microsoft Outlook "2024" Set to Replace Mail, Calendar & People Apps
Microsoft has announced some major changes for a selection of integrated Windows 11 productivity apps—yesterday's preview piece declared that: "The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features with a modern and simplified design to your Windows 11 PC. You can tailor it to your style and do more with the new Outlook for Windows! Learn more about the new Outlook for Windows here." Many W11 users are not fans of the current and very neglected set of Mail, Calendar & People applications, but forthcoming updates will provide some joy since the next version of Outlook is set to replace this messy arrangement entirely. A longer and more in-depth Insider article demonstrates the shape of things to come, including a dark mode! A trial version can be accessed via a toggle within the Windows 11 Mail & Calendar app.
Microsoft's roadmap/timeline indicates that new devices running Windows 11 will have the brand new Outlook app pre-installed, starting in early 2024: "The new Outlook for Windows (will be available) as the default mailbox application free for all to use. The Mail and Calendar applications will continue to be available via download in the Microsoft Store through the end of 2024. On existing devices, users can switch to the new Outlook for Windows from a toggle in the Mail and Calendar applications." The company's software engineers are alleged to be working on a project dubbed "Hudson Valley," which is rumored to be the next major version of Windows - aka 12 - arriving September 2024, which coincides with the removal of the improved Outlook app from Microsoft's store. The updated web-based client could be built into Windows 12, and positioned as the default email handling program.
Sources:
Microsoft Support News, Windows Central
Microsoft's roadmap/timeline indicates that new devices running Windows 11 will have the brand new Outlook app pre-installed, starting in early 2024: "The new Outlook for Windows (will be available) as the default mailbox application free for all to use. The Mail and Calendar applications will continue to be available via download in the Microsoft Store through the end of 2024. On existing devices, users can switch to the new Outlook for Windows from a toggle in the Mail and Calendar applications." The company's software engineers are alleged to be working on a project dubbed "Hudson Valley," which is rumored to be the next major version of Windows - aka 12 - arriving September 2024, which coincides with the removal of the improved Outlook app from Microsoft's store. The updated web-based client could be built into Windows 12, and positioned as the default email handling program.
33 Comments on Microsoft Outlook "2024" Set to Replace Mail, Calendar & People Apps
Microsoft was able to make a quite nice free "outlook" app on Mac, but gives Microsoft users this ?
That would help things a lot.
That being said the windows 10/11 mail app is rather garbage as someone who has had to help customers install their mail so there is that.
it's also slower than the old mail client. which doesn't show adds.
I will not use a mail client that shows me adds, I can get a small army of mail clients that do not show adds.
For fuck sake microsoft, it's always the same shit going from bad to worse. The current situation of having a Mail app side by side with outlook is pretty broken but you don't fix it by breaking it even more!!!
From the images it looks like they just brought the limited web client to the desktop, that's certainly going to end well with enterprise customers used to and requiring the "advanced" functions outlook provides ;)