Microsoft’s new Outlook email client is up and running (at least for now)

Microsoft has been working on integrating Outlook email clients for Windows, Mac, and the Web for over a year. Today, anyway, at this point, you can download the new Outlook even if Microsoft hasn’t officially announced the product yet.

Windows Central offered Link to “New Outlook” download May 6th (Thank you, Zac!) If you have a Microsoft 365 / Office 365 business and education account, it seems to be working now. (I was able to download a copy to Windows 11 at 9am this morning.)

The new Outlook is very similar to Outlook.com, which sources expected, so anyone expecting some major changes may be disappointed. The new Outlook inherits all existing Outlook for Windows settings, including the focused inbox being turned off by default. (Yes! Finally!) The choice to turn off the conversation view wasn’t maintained, but[設定]So it was easy to get this back. Other than that, it looks and feels a lot like Outlook.com, but with more actions on the ribbon, such as the ability to set retention policies.

The new Outlook, known as “Project Monarch” and “One Outlook” during development, has been tested internally by Microsoft for several months. Earlier this year, my contacts announced that Microsoft would announce a new Outlook this spring, offering test versions to Windows Insider in development and beta channels by late March or early April 2022 (yet). Not realized).

My contacts will also be pinned alongside the existing built-in email and calendar apps, with the new Outlook becoming an option when Microsoft makes the next feature update for Windows 10 and 11 available around October 2022. I said. Microsoft may try to get Windows users to try the new Outlook, but it doesn’t seem to force users to migrate to Outlook this year. At some point next year, I’m not sure if Microsoft will require Windows users to use the new Outlook to remove their existing email and calendar apps.

According to the initial leak, Microsoft officials I’m not going to replace the old Win32 Outlook client with the new Outlook until a long time later..

Microsoft currently has different versions of Outlook for Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, and Android devices. The mobile version is based on the acquired Acompli technology. Microsoft calls all these variants the old-fashioned “Outlook.” The new One Outlook will be branded as “Outlook” when it becomes available, but will work on Windows desktops (Win32 / UWP, Intel and Arm), the Web, and macOS desktops.