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posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 25 2022, @08:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-hope-they-don't-block-themselves... dept.

Microsoft marches toward its 'One Outlook' rollout:

A year ago, word leaked about Project Monarch, Microsoft's effort to consolidate its many different versions of its Outlook mail and calendar product. At that time, as first reported by Windows Central, Microsoft was planning to roll out its so-called "One Outlook" product and strategy in 2021. Monarch is still happening, but now it seems the bulk of the new One Outlook strategy and deliverables will be rolling out this year instead.

Microsoft currently has different versions of Outlook for Windows, Mac, the Web, iOS, and Android devices (based on the Acompli technology it acquired), all of which its officials (confusingly) tend to refer to as plain-old "Outlook." The new One Outlook -- which also is expected to be branded as plain-old "Outlook" once it's available -- will work on the Windows Desktop (Win32/UWP; Intel and Arm), on the Web, and the macOS Desktop. The new Outlook will look and feel a lot like Outlook for the Web, I hear.

Microsoft has been testing Monarch/One Outlook for several months internally with increasingly large rings of employees. My sources say the company is planning to make an official announcement about One Outlook this spring. Microsoft could be ready to get a test version of the new Outlook to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels by late March or early April 2022, my contacts say. By late July or August this year, Microsoft is hoping to be able to get it to Insiders in the Slow Channel, though this target date could slip until the fall, my contacts said.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 25 2022, @10:33AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 25 2022, @10:33AM (#1215548)

    I used K-9 from f-droid for a while.

    I gave up after the authentication pitfalls Google made its users go through with their OAUTH2 implementation. Outlook was the only client that could hassle-free connect out of the box to Gmail, Outlook, my college email and work exchange server.

    If FairEmail does that, I would prefer a FOSS solution but that's the curse of using proprietary email systems instead of vanilla IMAP/SMTP, I guess.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 25 2022, @11:18AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday January 25 2022, @11:18AM (#1215550) Journal

    Outlook was the only client that could hassle-free connect out of the box to Gmail, Outlook, my college email and work exchange server.

    I wonder why this is? Can you say, "collusion"? I knew you could.