Microsoft is a company that takes things in stride. This Sunday in our podcast we talked about the absence of the renewed official applications in Windows 11. Without going any further, one of the key apps of an operating system today is the Mail app. Last year we talked about Project Monarch or One Outlook, which is the unification of Outlook under the same design. The goal was to have launched it in 2021 but it was delayed and now according to Mary Jo Foley would arrive in spring.
One Outlook would arrive in a matter of months
Microsoft currently has different versions of Outlook for Windows, Mac, the web, iOS, and Android devices (based on the Acompli technology you purchased). Now the workers themselves refer to it as the old Outlook. The new One Outlook, which will keep its name, will work on Windows (Win32/UWP; Intel and Arm), on the web and on macOS. Apparently the new Outlook will have a very similar design to Outlook on the web.
The Redmond offices have been working and using One Outlook for several months with ever-larger groups of employees. From ZDNet they indicate that the company is planning to make an official announcement about One Outlook this spring. Microsoft could be ready to show off a test version of the new Outlook to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels in late March or early April 2022. By the end of July or August of this year, Microsoft hopes to be able to make it available. Insiders disposition in the slow channel, although this target date could be postponed until autumn.
Microsoft plans to offer the new Outlook with the next Windows 10 and Windows 11 feature update. The new Outlook will be an option and will be displayed alongside the existing Outlook app. Mail and Calendar. Microsoft is likely trying to get Windows users to try the new Outlook, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to force users to migrate to it this calendar year. We’ll see what happens, but it seems that this long-awaited app will finally come to Windows 10 and Windows 11