The clock is ticking for the outdated Home windows Mail, Calendar, and Folks apps. Microsoft just lately up to date the official documentation to make clear that with the top of help, the apps will cease working altogether on December 31, 2024. In different phrases, even in case you handle to keep the new Outlook app away from your computer, the outdated Mail app will lose its skill to ship and obtain mail in lower than two months.
Here’s what Microsoft says within the now-updated help doc:
Assist for Home windows Mail, Calendar, and Folks will finish on December 31, 2024. We’re at present within the means of transferring present customers to the brand new Outlook for Home windows. After December 31, 2024, customers will now not be capable of ship and obtain electronic mail utilizing Home windows Mail and Calendar. Any native emails, calendar occasions, and contacts saved in Mail, Calendar, and Folks will stay exportable following the steps in Export emails and contacts from Windows Mail or People and import to new Outlook.
Till just lately, the document solely talked about the top of help with out an specific clarification of how it will have an effect on the apps’ core options. Now, we all know that Microsoft will drive everybody to make use of the brand new Outlook for Home windows by reducing off the outdated UWP Mail and Calendar purchasers from the times of Home windows 10.
In its help doc, Microsoft says that with the brand new app, everybody “will get the perfect of Outlook” at no cost. In actuality, although, the brand new Outlook is universally hated for being a sluggish internet app, missing options, and offering an general unhealthy person expertise. Sadly, Microsoft is totally tone-deaf to the person’s voice and simply shoves the disliked software down everybody’s throat. For a lot of, switching to a unique electronic mail shopper will likely be a significantly better possibility than the brand new Outlook for Home windows with all of its shortcomings.
By way of WinFuture
