We’re excited to announce the brand new Outlook for Home windows is now typically accessible for industrial prospects and can now obtain full help from Microsoft’s help channels, together with Assisted Help! The brand new Outlook for Home windows combines wealthy productiveness options and the most recent improvements: Take pleasure in a well-recognized, extra productive, and seamless option to work.
The evolution of the brand new Outlook for Home windows is a collaborative effort, formed by the voices, experiences, and suggestions of tens of tens of millions of people that use it throughout work and private accounts. In Could 2022, we launched the preview of the brand new Outlook for Home windows, embarking on a mission to ship the very best e mail expertise for our fashionable wants. By September 2023, it was made typically accessible for private accounts.
Thanks on your continued help and suggestions. We’re excited to succeed in this milestone and look ahead to your ongoing suggestions to make the brand new Outlook the very best e mail expertise for you and your group.
With this replace, we aren’t altering any settings for you or your group. New Outlook continues to be an opt-in expertise, so it’s prepared for you if you end up. See our migration timeline to assist together with your planning.
Picture reveals the following milestones and phases for the brand new Outlook
Constructed for right this moment and designed for the longer term, the brand new Outlook for Home windows combines wealthy productiveness options and the most recent improvements like Microsoft Copilot, to assist customers draft emails, summarize conversations, and obtain teaching to extra successfully get their messages throughout. Clients are already embracing these new instruments, the place we proceed to see rising utilization.
Designed to be acquainted and dependable
We’ve taken the familiarity and reliability of traditional Outlook and improved it with a contemporary structure that reduces device-resource consumption and drastically shortens the time required to ship fixes and new capabilities to only weeks. This helps you spend much less time resolving points because of computerized updates that apply as quickly as Outlook is opened.
Video displaying the brand new Outlook for Home windows design and options
Constructed for innovation that can assist you obtain extra
With innovation at its core and the mixing of latest AI options like Copilot, the brand new Outlook empowers you to get extra performed and effortlessly keep up to the mark.
Options like urged textual content and urged replies make it easier to cope with emails quicker whereas essentially the most up-to-date Copilot capabilities can help with writing higher emails, breaking author’s block, and summarizing your emails so you may undergo your inbox quicker.
Ask Copilot to draft an e mail or summarize latest emails
Effortlessly keep up to the mark by dragging emails to My Day to show them into duties, pinning a message so it stays on the prime of your inbox, and RSVPing to a gathering invite with “Observe” when you may’t attend however need to keep within the loop. You can too hold your inbox freed from litter by automating how Outlook triages messages utilizing Sweep and guidelines.
From the assembly invite, choose Observe to remain up to date on any outcomes
Enhancements to make your work seamless
We’ve taken the familiarity and reliability of traditional Outlook and reimagined it with fashionable enhancements to combine seamlessly with Microsoft Groups, Loop, OneDrive, and different Microsoft 365 merchandise.
Scale back forwards and backwards emails, doc model monitoring, and context switching with real-time collaboration utilizing Microsoft Loop which syncs the content material throughout apps like Outlook and Groups. Begin a Loop element within the new Outlook, share it by e mail or Groups and content material is up to date in actual time.
Picture displaying how a number of individuals can collaborate in actual time with new Outlook and Loop
Search and fix recordsdata from OneDrive with out switching apps simply by typing “/” to see urged recordsdata and recordsdata you latterly labored on.
Sort / when composing a message within the new Outlook to see urged recordsdata
Within the new Outlook, planning to work remotely or within the workplace is just a little simpler. You’ll be able to arrange your working hours and placement, so your colleagues know when and the place you propose to work and once they set theirs, you may see which teammates plan to be within the workplace to attach and collaborate together with your staff.
Outlook helps you propose when to be within the workplace to attach and collaborate together with your staff
There are many new options within the new Outlook. Under is an inventory of helpful assets to discover and be taught extra.
Whether or not you are somebody who wants to speak, coordinate, and collaborate successfully, or an IT supervisor in a corporation who desires to optimize prices and efficiency, the brand new Outlook has one thing for you.
- Monetary advantages of deploying the brand new Outlook for Home windows
A 2024 commissioned Complete Financial Influence™ examine performed by Forrester Consulting, a part of an impartial third-party analysis agency, decided that working the brand new Outlook is more economical than traditional Outlook; surveyed prospects count on the brand new Outlook to scale back help tickets as much as 65%, and scale back power and storage prices by 27%. The examine additionally discovered time invested in coverage administration by as much as 60% for the composite group primarily based on interviewed prospects.“[New Outlook creates] vital time financial savings that may be repurposed for different work, [allowing us] to do extra strategic pondering.”
–Director of infrastructure and utility administration, client itemsOver three years, the projected advantages exceed the prices of implementation by as much as 3 instances.
For extra data on advantages and prices please see the hyperlinks under:
o New Outlook adoption website
o Obtain the infographic with key particulars on the monetary advantages of the brand new Outlook
You can too create a custom-made monetary advantages report on your personal group in this interactive website.
- Sooner deployment of options and fixes
The brand new Outlook consumes much less gadget assets and makes use of a shared code, frequent structure and repair to speed up innovation, deployment, and bug fixes down to some weeks. Moreover, deployment occurs concurrently throughout Home windows and net conserving customers updated and on essentially the most safe builds robotically.
- Constant habits
One expertise throughout Home windows in desktop and net reduces help calls, coverage administration, and coaching prices – To estimate the monetary advantages of the brand new Outlook in your group, you may customise this interactive examine to your group, obtain the full report, or learn the highlights in this infographic.
For extra data on getting your group prepared for the brand new Outlook for Home windows, please see the new Outlook adoption website for an overview of advantages, obtain the migration equipment, learn the most recent FAQ, and way more. A listing of accessible assets could be discovered right here.
Key updates:
- There aren’t any configuration adjustments for any group right now. This announcement just isn’t an advance-notice of any vital adjustments for the subsequent milestone. Relaxation assured, any controls or blocks your group has enabled will proceed to be honored. For extra details about controlling the discharge see https://aka.ms/newOutlookControlRelease
- The brand new Outlook for Home windows will now obtain full help from Microsoft’s help channels, together with Assisted Help.
- The app identify for the traditional Outlook for Home windows will probably be appended with “(traditional)” ranging from model 2407.
- Present installations of traditional Outlook by perpetual licensing will proceed to be supported till at the very least 2029. For extra details about the provision of traditional Outlook for Home windows, see https://aka.ms/newOutlookTimeline
- New options will debut within the Focused Launch ring and stay there for 30 days earlier than going into Normal Availability launch (Commonplace Launch). If customers are already a part of Focused Launch, new Outlook will honor that. For extra data on how updates for brand spanking new Outlook work, please learn this help article.
- For migration assets, FAQs, and pattern templates to assist with migration planning, assessment the migration equipment discovered right here: https://aka.ms/newOutlookAdoption
- For a useful record of all assets and documentation, see https://aka.ms/newOutlookResources
This GA milestone will allow extra organizations to start out their migration course of. We’ll proceed to make characteristic enhancements and monitor suggestions, so proceed to attempt the brand new expertise and tell us what you need to see subsequent!
You’ll find the suggestions possibility underneath the Assist tab within the ribbon.
We’re excited to be on this journey with you.
Thanks!
Margie
*Microsoft Copilot options require a Copilot license – Be taught extra right here.
