Microsoft is making some long overdue and welcome changes to Outlook to include the Windows and the Web-based version.
People who use either one will now see a “Coming Soon” option that allows users to toggle between the version they’ve got now, and the new and improved version with the changes.
As to those changes, they fall broadly into three groups:
There’s no word yet on how long the new features will be offered as an opt-in option, but of course, at some point, the company will mandate the change.
On balance, these are good changes. Perhaps more modest than long-time users would like to have seen, but again, any changes to one of the oldest email systems still around have to be counted as a positive.
Kudos to Microsoft for keeping Outlook reasonably up to date, and here’s hoping that the user base embraces them. which we hope hope will encourage the company to make additional improvements.