ToDo, Flagged Emails and opening in Outlook Desktop

I am a big user of the To Do app myself, for keeping track of everything. We also use Planner for tasks within various departments, and these tasks show up in the To Do app, so it's not something I can simply stop using.

The "old" Outlook desktop client has the To Do app built in. So you can use this "version" of the To Do app which does open the items in Outlook.

A nice little trick is to right click the To Do app > Pop out app

Better than nothing, since, yes, it seems like MS wants to force us into the severely feature lacking "New" version of Outlook (read: OWA wrapped in a "desktop app").

Over 3 years since this was suggested, and the problem still persists. I don't Microsoft is going to solve this. They seem to want to force us over on web Outlook.

Just another one of Microsoft's half-baked features. They either never follow through with user suggestions to fully make things functional, or they remove and break features when they are fully functional.

The "New Outlook" is basically the website.

I would like Ms To Do to open emails in the classic outlook (the one and only usable one...). But I suspect if this is ever being implemented, it will only work with the "New Outlook".

I had our IT department flag that to MS enterprise support and they have acknowledged that it is a known issue, but don't have resources to get it fixed at least for this year. Hopefully next!