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I get the impression that eventually 'new Outlook' will replace 'Outlook Classic'. It looks like Microsoft have a target of April 2026 for this, but will continue to support the 'classic' version until at least 2029. (Annoyingly MS Publisher will no longer be supported from October 2026, but as of yet Microsoft's alternatives are somewhat lacking.)

From what I've read support for shared mailboxes is due to finally start rolling out later this month on the new version. This has been the biggest reason for me not using the new version, and indeed advising colleague to revert back to Classic if they accidentally switch across. Once that's supported I'll probably switch across and give it a longer test to see what else isn't available that I currently use.

Charlie Wells wrote: Fri 13 Jun, 2025 13.48 I get the impression that eventually 'new Outlook' will replace 'Outlook Classic'. It looks like Microsoft have a target of April 2026 for this, but will continue to support the 'classic' version until at least 2029. (Annoyingly MS Publisher will no longer be supported from October 2026, but as of yet Microsoft's alternatives are somewhat lacking.)

That's all well and good had they developed the new product to be good enough to replace it. But so far it's just a case of waiting for 'new' Outlook to reimplement things which 'classic' Outlook already has. This is hardly the way to show progress.

With Publisher...I think the argument for some time (decades in fact) is that Word is more than mature enough to take on most DTP needs, which left Publisher largely only used by people who still like to make hand-printed greetings cards and print out 10 foot banners. But also there will of course be other usage cases for it. If it's something you use then can't you just keep using an old version if you have the media and the licence for it? I can't remember the last time any meaningful update was made to it anyway and not exactly sure what realistic risk exists with continuing to run an unsupported version of Publisher? It's not exactly in the same ballpark as running an unsupported OS or an unsupported web browser.

I see New Outlook is, at last, supporting pst files, but only after a fashion. All my filing has been in a pst file ever since the dawn of email, so I won't be changing over untill full pst support, as in Old Outlook, is available.

Sway...

The death of that product can not come soon enough.

every so often I click on something in Outlook or Teams and find myself in yet another bloody new Microsoft product that I've never heard of before. Microsoft Loop is a thing?