Microsoft is finally bringing All Accounts view to Outlook on Windows

Microsoft finally decided to listen to users and bring one fundamental but still-absent feature to Outlook for Windows. After years of requesting and complaining, Outlook users on Windows will finally get a unified inbox view. The feature, also called All Accounts view, was added to the roadmap yesterday, with rollout set to begin in August.

So, if you have multiple email accounts, you can see all your inboxes in one place without actually merging them. Each account stays separate underneath, but the view pulls everything together so you can access and manage emails without switching between mailboxes. You can read, delete, move, archive, and mark messages across accounts from that single view.

It’s kind of ironic how the company keeps forcing the latest AI features upon users, but sometimes neglects the fundamentals that are actually more useful for everyday users.

It’s worth mentioning that we’re still not getting the entire package. The roadmap entry says that the initial release will only support searching within your primary account. Cross-account search and shared mailbox support are listed as coming in later releases. Copilot integration is included from the start, and it will build upon the recent Copilot features that Microsoft has been rolling out in Outlook this year.

This has been a sore point for a while. Unified inbox has existed on Outlook for Mac and on mobile for years, but the new Outlook for Windows, which Microsoft has been pushing as the replacement for the classic desktop client, somehow lacks it. People have been filing feedback, complaining online, and coming up with various workarounds just to have a version of a unified inbox view. Microsoft is now finally committing to fixing that.

The feature is listed for worldwide rollout on the web (which means it will be present both in the browser and Windows versions) under general availability, with no preview period mentioned yet.