Yeah Microsoft wants to give reasons to users Windows 10which almost a decade after its release retains the 60.95% of market share, so that they move to Windows 11with a 35%his last move is not going to help that much. The company plans load the native applications of the operating system Mail, Calendar and Contactsalso called People, by ending its support next December 31.
Therefore, as of January 1 It will no longer be possible to send or receive emails through Windows Mail and, although Microsoft has not specified it, it is expected that the calendar and contacts cannot continue to be managed either. The company emphasizes that locally stored emails, calendar events and contacts stored in these applications can be exported to the new outlook.
This new Outlook is the web app that Microsoft has promoted for years and that it wants replace all your other email clientsboth Windows Mail and the Outlook desktop app included with Microsoft 365. As a web app, users will go through to depend on your Internet connection to access emails and the rest of the functions of these applications.
The next step will be get rid of the desktop version of Outlooksomething that Microsoft will provide 12 months’ notice to your business customers before making the change. Then the others will follow.
According to The Verge, Existing Outlook classic licenses without time limit will be supported at least until 2029so it will still take a few years for all Microsoft account users to converge on the new Outlook.
In any case, if you are a Windows Mail, Calendar and Contacts user in Windows 11, you will have to migrate to the new Outlook or use a third-party email client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird.
From the new Outlook, the user will have the option to access a kind of ‘reading mode’ of old native Windows appswith the content stored, but without the possibility of sending or receiving email, something that you can only do from the new Outlook.