Windows 11 says goodbye to two apps and joins them in the new Outlook for Windows
Next year, Microsoft will replace the default Mail and Calendar applications of its Windows operating system with the new Outlook for Windows application.
Mail and Calendar were default applications when Microsoft launched Windows 10 in 2015 and they have been essential apps for many users ever since. When Microsoft launched Windows 11 in late 2021, Mail and Calendar were part of the default application bundle as well.
Work on a new Outlook app for Windows began several years ago. Microsoft started to test the new Outlook for Windows application in May 2022, when it released it to Microsoft 365 Insiders.
Then in April 2023, Microsoft added a toggle to the then-default Outlook app for Windows that allowed users to try out the new Outlook app. Microsoft did not pressure users into using the new Outlook application.
Windows users may download the Outlook for Windows application from the Microsoft Store.
A new message on the Microsoft 365 Message Center, reposted on the M365 Admin website, informs Microsoft 365 administrators about Microsoft's plans regarding the new Outlook app for Windows.
According to the message, Microsoft plans to discontinue the Mail and Calendar apps of Windows. Starting September 2024, both applications will no longer be available for download or use. In the meantime, Mail and Calendar apps users may see tips that inform them about the upcoming changes to their applications.
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.
Several changes were introduced to Outlook in 2023 already. Microsoft made the Outlook app for Mac devices free for all users and has introduced two-factor authentication capabilities into the mobile Outlook applications.
The discontinuation of Mail and Calendar is a major change. While the number of affected users is unclear, as Microsoft has never released public information about Mail and Calendar usage on Windows, it is certain that the change will affect more users than most previous removals of default applications on Windows.
Mail and Calendar users have more than a year to prepare for the day that will inevitably come.
Now You: do you use the Mail or Calendar app? (via Neowin)
How to write a title? Statements don’t have question marks at the end? Here is how to do something? One plus one is two?
The question mark is not grammar. It’s punctuation and Shaun’s use in this instance is valid.
Get a life, you effete poser.
Its a trick and clickbait. A lot of scammer us question mark at the end. I do not say that Shaun is a scammer. But half of scams’ ads start with (Is this miraculous product works?) or (Is this promising money making opportunity a scam?)
The question mark is 100% incorrect and incorrect grammar should always be called out, b/c it’s the lack of such that leads to the dumbing down of society.
The “How to…” in this specific article title is not a direct “question”; it’s actually an “answer” thus it doesn’t need a question mark.
Are you serious?
Could we …?
Could we do it? … It might just be possible …!
Question marks are used to indicate a direct question. Do not use a question mark when a question is implied by indirect speech.
This don’t work in W11 22H2, however if it is so easy to move the taskbar why MS is unable to allow this tweak in future reviews or releases? :[
Just intall StartAllBack https://www.startallback.com/
And it allows you to do all the things you were able to do with the start menu and taskbar in previous versions of Windows. It goes beyond that, it allows you to change start menu layouts, taksbar layouts, disable the new context menu, use 3 different layouts for file explorer – Windows 11, Windows 10 and Windows 7.
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great solution I love it super easy!
So what’s the value to move it to the side then?
Give me left-side vertical taskbar or give me death.
I have used just about every linux there is. BSD and all. Linux to me, don’t have what I feel I should need to work with. For year and years, the desktop PC user, has tried making their windows look like MAC, with the DOCK there @ the bottom. I have used mac os, and it’s like there’s no soft for the Unix OS, like there should be.
Windows 11 is a step backwards. Who would willingly use that awful OS?
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I wonder why Microsoft decided to restrict taskbar positioning in W11, it’s part of all the functional regressions that they implemented in W11!!!
Because MS wants to be Apple … yuck!
Doesn’t work for me now, and has never done so in the past.
Posting an article that has been obsolete since 22H2 update in Oct 2022. Seriously?
These directions are NOT correct: “You will see a default value of ‘3’ in this field. Place your cursor just ahead of the 3 and press backspace once and change the value to ‘1.’”
You will see a default value of 03.
Place the cursor just ahead or in front of the 03.
Press the DELETE button once.
Enter a value of 01.
That seems to be the safest way to may a useless change because WINDOWS will no longer allow the user to move their taskbar!
The main reason to use Windows rather than IOS is to have more options, Sadly MS seems distracted by all the other revenue sources.
Has no one at MS ever analyzed mouse usage to realize that having the taskbar at the top shortens the distances you need to move the mouse in routine use (because most app menus are also at the top)?