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Classic Outlook - Until when will it be supported & available for use?
Can users with Classic outlook continue using it in 2025?
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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At work, we cannot see other's calendars with the Classic version. Is Microsoft making changes so we are forced to use the new version?
I think that's their plan.
Whether Microsof listens or not but, the New outlook is ABSOULTELLY AWFUL. Im sure that they did Beata testing and also interviewing their customers right? uh no. Also, the Office 365 policy thats in place is JAMMING the new outlook down my throat WITHOUT an option to say no. BAD CHOICE! I do however have the option to flick the swtich back to classic but seriously Microsoft you ned to start listening to your customers and do a better job at informing your office 365 customers!
You have a valid point. It was a last resort suggestion not without its risk. Avoiding 11 aslLong as I can.
Microsoft has a LONG WAY to go if they expect me to switch over to the new Outlook. I tried it for a month thinking I would need to get used to it if old Outlook stopped being supported but I couldn't take it anymore. Simple clicking/dragging attached files directly from emails was no longer possible, something that saves me a ton of time in my day. I was having to download files and then drag them from my downloads folder.
I use categories a lot for my emails (instead of folders), and I liked the ability to search for categories that I wanted to apply to emails. But then, for whatever reason, I could no longer view emails that were assigned to some categories when I clicked on the categories in my favorites menu. This is just one of several bugs that I've encountered working with this program.
If Microsoft wanted to create a new product with automation and integrated AI tools, then they should have kept the design that everyone liked and then just incorporated them.
Hopefully in 2029 the new Outlook will be much improved and then I'll take a look at it. But right now it's trash and I don't want to use it (just like No Man's Sky was trash when it first launched). Hopefully Outlook follows a similar trend to that game.