Why not? The first Office versions were Mac only, long before Windows.
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Microsoft to Replace Outlook for Mac With New Universal Client
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Outlook is a very good email service, but will never match the amount of users as google has because I hear many say my email is "blahblah@gmail" because that rolls of the tongue better than "my mail is blahblah@outlook".
Microsoft is still very powerful but just bland, their stores were always empty and does not feature anything innovating or creative at all. The problem with Microsoft is they need better outside app developers because there is not one drawing/cartooning app on that surface that can be useful in the professional design world.
Tried the new version and it doesn't even support shared mailboxes. Just terrible. Keep Outlook the way it is. No one uses it because it's pretty, we use it because it works.
I really hope you’re right. I’m still forced to program several emails a week all in tables because of their rendering garbage. That’s the one nightmare left from the olden days.
I am glad I don’t have to rely on Microsoft for any of my needs. This back and forth is not good.
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I am referring mostly to O365 tenants. I use Outlook on my Windows laptop from my work, but for my small IT company I use O365 with Apple apps (Mail, Calendar, etc). Outlook on the Mac is just not as good as the Apple experience. Now that they are changing it again, it is clear to me that Microsoft never changed. They still base their decisions based on politics and not on technical features or benefits for the users. Microsoft is just a dull company, similar to IBM. We need them to exist, but they will never make users happy in any way. They are just for work and nothing else..
This seems... 'brave'.
Our office uses Outlook heavily and integrates an iManage document management system, PDF conversion on send, disaster recovery, email scanning, a signature manager, etc., etc. This is not a particularly unusual setup in a professional services business.
Somehow I feel a web app is going to mess a lot of this up and for what benefit? Feature parity with a web app (and other platforms) that is of no relevance to our business?
Our office uses Outlook heavily and integrates an iManage document management system, PDF conversion on send, disaster recovery, email scanning, a signature manager, etc., etc. This is not a particularly unusual setup in a professional services business.
Somehow I feel a web app is going to mess a lot of this up and for what benefit? Feature parity with a web app (and other platforms) that is of no relevance to our business?
I gave up on the Mac client ages ago and just use the web browser version now. It actually works.
Microsoft might be just preferring to sell the service instead of the UIs. As long as there are clients for them, it's more cost effective...
I don't really care about Outlook for Mac. What I care about is that they're doing this for the Windows version. So my work email, already suffering when my company went to the Cloud, will now be browser-based? Good hell. That's going to really suck.
At work, I have a Mac and a PC and I keep using the PC mostly because the Windows client is so much better than the Mac one.
So the only way I can see this as a good thing is if both the web and the MAc client become as good as the Windows one.
If not, its a waste of resources.
So the only way I can see this as a good thing is if both the web and the MAc client become as good as the Windows one.
If not, its a waste of resources.
On-deck: look for Microsoft to combine Word, Excel & PowerPoint into a single, “easier to use” program using modern design language, streamlined feature set, and a new, cloud-only OneDrive file format. I expect them to recycle the name Works and to push it out to Mac users in early 2022.
My biggest worry here is that you're going to lose features that ONLY exist in the app today. Only the Mac app version of Outlook gives you a universal inbox. Windows users have been asking for this for years. Likewise, using the app (any platform) is necessary if you have more than one mail account. The web version simply gives you the one account you're logged into. This causes another issue where, if you have more than one 365 account (say a personal and work account or if you are doing work for multiple companies) you can't even have two tabs open--one for Account A and another for Account B--because the web version assumes the active account is the last one you touched.
This likely means that, while the new Outlook will be released late this year, many features will be "pending" or "under consideration" for years to come.
This likely means that, while the new Outlook will be released late this year, many features will be "pending" or "under consideration" for years to come.
Actually, MS is doing well making the current Outlook for Mac much more Windows-like. The "New Outlook" option in Outlook is very nice actually. I do wish they would make the Windows and Mac version as much alike as they can. Why is it called "Open additional mailbox" in the Windows version but "adding a Delegate" in the Mac version? If they could just make the two look and work the same.
Not clear what Electron is although with comments here I get an idea, but if it is a web app next year, do I need internet access for it to work or does the Electron wrapper take a web app and make it a desktop app?
I don't think Microsoft would do this if they didn't think they could do it well, keep functionality, and make users happy. I'm optimistic. I know, optimism and not complaining are a rare thing on these boards, so I'm sorry to be off tune.
Not sure if this comment belongs here or on the "New Outlook" thread, but I've been experimenting with it because I was eager for mail & calendar in one app, as well as Outlook's generally slicker Scheduling Assistant. However, I'm surprised to find that Apple's Mail is much quicker and easier to use overall.