Microsoft has been heavily pushing the new Outlook experience to its customers for quite some time now. The company began deploying the UX on Microsoft 365 a few months ago, along with a better mechanism to switch between the classic and the revamped experience. It also added new features like offline capabilities and PST support. The firm even penned a blog post explaining why haters of the new Outlook experience are wrong, and that it"s actually a great app. Now, it has done something similar once again.
In yet another blog, Microsoft has encouraged customers to "experience the future" through the new Outlook after they switch from the classic experience. The company has boasted better performance, security, agility, and stability in the new app, along with the following features:
- Pin important emails
- Sort and search for attendees
- Apply new themes and colored mailbox folders
- Add shared mailboxes as accounts
- Use Copilot-powered inbox prioritization and email drafting
- Create structured, professional, and richly formatted newsletters
Microsoft has emphasized that this is exactly the right time to migrate to the new Outlook, as it is consistent across different devices and contexts and offers hybrid RSVP and better trackability for meeting attendees. But perhaps the most important aspect of the new Outlook is the integration with Windows, through capabilities like opening of attachments in the default app of your choice, dragging and dropping them to the desktop, sending content to OneNote, and integration with Teams.
As usual, you can switch to the new Outlook experience by clicking the "Try the new Outlook" toggle on the top-right corner of the inbox and then tapping "Switch". This experience is available for all customers running Windows 10 and 11, but Microsoft has assured users that this transition will be gradual. Perhaps this will serve as enough time to convince the haters who believe that the new app is "hot garbage".