Microsoft plans to cease supporting Home windows Mail, Calendar, and Individuals apps later this 12 months. The software program large has been shifting present customers of those apps to the brand new Outlook for Home windows app for the previous few months, and has now set a December 31 end-of-support date for the Mail, Calendar, and Individuals apps.
As soon as the apps attain the top of assist later this 12 months, Microsoft warns that customers who haven't moved to the brand new Outlook app “will now not be capable of ship and obtain e mail utilizing Home windows Mail and Calendar.”
Microsoft has been rolling out the brand new Outlook app for Home windows for years, with it formally reaching normal availability in August. The brand new web-based Outlook is designed to ultimately change the complete desktop model of Outlook as properly, and Microsoft plans to present enterprise prospects 12 months discover earlier than it begins shifting individuals away from the desktop model of Outlook.
Current installations of traditional Outlook via perpetual and subscription licenses will proceed to be supported till a minimum of 2029, so it should take a while for Microsoft to completely migrate all Outlook customers to this new software. It begins with the Home windows Mail and Calendar apps later this 12 months, adopted by a phase-out for Outlook on Home windows. You’ll be able to learn extra about Microsoft's timeline for the brand new Outlook for Home windows right here.