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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: 2, Interesting) by j-beda on Tuesday January 25 2022, @05:55PM (1 child)

    by j-beda (6342) on Tuesday January 25 2022, @05:55PM (#1215628) Homepage

    There is a nice slider switch on Mac Desktop Outlook to use the "New Outlook" - no idea if this related to 'One Outlook'.

    Unfortunately, the "New Outlook" is unable to work with mailboxes “On My Computer”. As of Dec 8 Microsoft does say in one of their roadmap/update postings that they are working on having these folders accessible in "the new Outlook":

    Local data is saved in “On My Computer” folder in the navigation pane. The items in these folders are saved only on your computer and are not synchronized with a mail server. In the new Outlook for Mac, we are working to migrate and support the local folders.

    Now, maybe if one had infinite online storage this would not be an issue, but Microsoft's whole hosted Exchange system limits mail storage to 50GB chunks, which is not that hard to fill up when people are sending around lots of hefty file attachments and have a significant amount of email passing through (ie the project lead who has lots of team members ccing them on things with lots of external people who need to be informed with status updates.) Over the past few years I have managed to get people to regularly check their quotas and move thing to storage "On My Computer" as needed.

    I suppose we could set up a local IMAP server and just have people use that for email storage, but the whole point to moving to Microsoft 365 was to avoid the work needed to maintain these types of services, the network infrastructure, and all the associated bits and pieces (certificates, DNS, etc.)

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 25 2022, @06:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 25 2022, @06:39PM (#1215646)

    Good luck with the storage. My personal beef with the new outlook was that it didn't open the .ics-files, totally impossible to import any kind of iCal files kind of killed it for me so I stuck with the old outlook until they fixed it (the support request was hanging on their wish list site (suggestions) over a year)...