MS is doing the same to Outlook users too at some point. Its a much better app. Windows mail/calendar were an oddity. Remember outlook express?
An oddity that has been around for a while. It was a fairly simple client on Windows 10 too. We used to use it for my mum to access her Gmail as it was so simple.
Moving from a local client to a Web based client is all about moving windows and it’s software to a cloud based service. For that to work all your data needs to be remote in the cloud too. This is about what is good for Microsoft, not it’s users.
I hope they make the outlook notifications have the same buttons as the mail app. When I tried the outlook app last time the notifications didn’t have an archive or delete button. For me that was the most frequently used button in the entire program.
So. We went from Outlook Express to Windows Mail back to Outlook?! Make up your damn mind, Microsoft
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Its a much better app.
That should be up to each user to decide but as always Mircrosoft knows better than you what’s best for you. This “new Outlook” is actually a web-wrapper from Outlook.com running in Edge - you will have to use Edge and you will have to be logged in to Microsoft account - this is most likely the reason why they’re doing it.
It’s a pwa, you can use any browser you want that supports pwa (which is, at least, all chromium based browsers).
I have Outlook PWA (via Chrome) and I don’t have Edge installed.
