Final month, Microsoft formally introduced the approaching finish of its Mail, Calendar, and Individuals apps. For those who’re nonetheless utilizing these apps, you’ll begin receiving pop-ups notifying you that end-of-support is arising on December 31, 2024, and also you’ll be urged to change over to the brand new Outlook app that Microsoft is specializing in.
Extra just lately, Microsoft has began pushing customers in that path even tougher. In keeping with Home windows Newest, business-oriented Microsoft 365 customers are being urged to change from basic Outlook to the brand new Outlook app, regardless of it missing a number of options from the legacy app.
There’ll first be an elective interval the place customers can select to change over at their comfort, with a deadline at which level customers will likely be pressured to surrender basic Outlook.
For Microsoft 365 Enterprise Customary and Premium customers, the transition will start as early as January 2025. Microsoft 365 Enterprise customers could have just a little extra time. Microsoft’s plan is for the complete transition over to the brand new Outlook app to be accomplished by April 2026, however “present installations of basic Outlook via perpetual and subscription licensing will proceed to be supported till at the very least 2029,” stated one Microsoft consultant who reached out to us. So, we now have an official “dying date” for traditional Outlook.
It stays to be seen if Microsoft will hold its promise so as to add these lacking options from basic Outlook to the brand new Outlook, however we aren’t holding our breath. We don’t blame anybody for holding out and sticking with basic Outlook for so long as attainable.
Additional studying: Key particulars to know concerning the new Outlook app
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
