New Outlook with multiple accounts

Adding myself in this discussion 1 year later as they forced me to leave windows mail app. Who the f- thought this wasn't a feature that needed priority?

I'm sorry but you should actually know what you are talking about before misrepresenting something. As a real IT professional and not the sorry excuse for the pretend ones on here (I know you aren't representing yourself as such), let me explain to you and anyone who has been misled by your link.

A SHARED INBOX IS NOT a unified inbox - a shared inbox is for a group of people (say the BBC news team) to access the same emails, which will have, for example, the email address of ******@bbc.co.uk. When a member of the news team logs into his/her PC and then opens his/her email, that person will then see, and be able to open, the shared inbox. When someone sends an email to that address it goes into that inbox for all the team to read as long as that person on the team has permissions to 'see' the inbox. As it acts like a separate account this will result in yet another account in your list of multiple accounts.

A unified inbox takes all your emails from every account and presents them in one place, acting like a search (which is why the workarounds for Microsoft's incompetence in this area is to do exactly that - make a search query to act like a unified inbox, which is a shoddy and rubbish solution).

Microsoft NEEDS to get it's useless act together and sort this ASAP

I also had this issue--a year go when these posts were going up. THERE WAS NO unified box and so many people (including myself) simply continued to use the older Mail program since it did. Last night I could no longer force Mail to open. I have spent the day converting to the new program (unhappily) believing there was no way they fixed the problem people were most vocal about. THEY HAVE NOT that I can find. Favorites simply puts all the accounts you want unified in a list at the top of the folders column. You still have to view your accounts one at a time. THANKS FOR NOTHING Microsoft--we appreciate your listening to your end users.

I'm not sure you read this correctly (or MS has changed the spec!). Currently says will be possible to add Shared Mailboxes to New Outlook. That is not the same thing as unifying personal mailboxes.

To add salt to wound, I just found that you can't paste from one account to another (I store all my Contacts in one account, but can't paste a phone number from there to an email being written from another account). New Outlook really should be FOC as its feature set is not complete.

Thanks to all for their responses. It is hard to believe that Microsoft didn’t build this capability into the new outlook from the beginning. Let’s hope the March update does allow all email accounts to be consolidated into one inbox folder.