Just over the summer, news emerged for the first time about the discontinuation of two important applications from Microsoft’s operating system. The company therefore announced that stops supporting Windows Mail and Calendar.
In recent months, Microsoft has been moving existing users of these applications to the new Outlook for Windows with the idea of abandon them permanently. These programs are vital and create a very important experience: one for emails and another for marking events and reminders on the calendar.
The tech giant has now set a deadline for the end of support for Mail, Calendar and People: December 31. Microsoft also warned that once support for these apps ends at the end of this year, users who are not migrated to the new Outlook You will not be able to send and receive emails using Windows Mail and Calendar.
Microsoft has been developing the new Outlook for Windows for years with the serious intention of making it the perfect application for sending emails from a PC. Just in August the final version of Outlook for Windows arrived and now Microsoft’s proposals do not stop there, since one of its goals is that the new Outlook-based website eventually replaces the full desktop version of Outlook.
This means that Microsoft’s plan is to give 12 months’ notice before fully migrating from the desktop version of Outlook. There is another important point in all these moves, which is that existing installations of classic Outlook via perpetual and subscription licenses will continue to be supported until at least 2029
It all starts with the Mail and Calendar apps disappearing this year, so the next step is to migrate from the desktop version to the web version. The tech giant, according to The edgeshared all the information from an article on its website to leave everything well tied up and don’t surprise anyone. A farewell to two applications that remained with Windows 11 and which are now replaced by a single one from which you can continue to receive and send emails.