We’re excited to announce the brand new Outlook for Home windows is now usually out there for business 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-known, extra productive, and seamless method 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 thousands and thousands 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 perfect e mail expertise for our trendy wants. By September 2023, it was made usually out there for private accounts.
Thanks to your continued help and suggestions. We’re excited to achieve this milestone and look ahead to your ongoing suggestions to make the brand new Outlook the perfect e mail expertise for you and your group.
With this replace, we’re not altering any settings for you or your group. New Outlook remains to be an opt-in expertise, so it’s prepared for you if you find yourself. See our migration timeline to assist along with your planning.
Picture exhibits the following milestones and phases for the brand new Outlook
Constructed for at this time and designed for the long run, 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. Prospects 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 due to computerized updates that apply as quickly as Outlook is opened.
Video exhibiting 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 combination of recent AI options like Copilot, the brand new Outlook empowers you to get extra accomplished and effortlessly keep up to the mark.
Options like recommended textual content and recommended replies enable you to cope with emails sooner whereas probably 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 sooner.
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. It’s also possible to maintain 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 trendy enhancements to combine seamlessly with Microsoft Groups, Loop, OneDrive, and different Microsoft 365 merchandise.
Scale back backwards and forwards 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 exhibiting how a number of folks can collaborate in actual time with new Outlook and Loop
Search and fasten information from OneDrive with out switching apps simply by typing “/” to see recommended information and information you lately labored on.
Kind / when composing a message within the new Outlook to see recommended information
Within the new Outlook, planning to work remotely or within the workplace is just a little simpler. You possibly can arrange your working hours and placement, so your colleagues know when and the place you intend to work and after they set theirs, you may see which teammates plan to be within the workplace to attach and collaborate along with your staff.
Outlook helps you intend when to be within the workplace to attach and collaborate along with your staff
There are many new options within the new Outlook. Under is an inventory of helpful sources 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 Affect™ examine carried out by Forrester Consulting, a part of an unbiased third-party analysis agency, decided that working the brand new Outlook is more economical than traditional Outlook; surveyed prospects anticipate the brand new Outlook to scale back help tickets as much as 65%, and scale back vitality 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] important 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 occasions.
For extra info on advantages and prices please see the hyperlinks under:
o New Outlook adoption web site
o Obtain the infographic with key particulars on the monetary advantages of the brand new Outlook
It’s also possible to create a custom-made monetary advantages report to your personal group in this interactive web site.
- Quicker deployment of options and fixes
The brand new Outlook consumes much less system sources 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 retaining customers updated and on probably the most safe builds routinely.
- Constant conduct
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 info on getting your group prepared for the brand new Outlook for Home windows, please see the new Outlook adoption web site for an overview of advantages, obtain the migration package, learn the most recent FAQ, and way more. A listing of out there sources will be discovered right here.
Key updates:
- There aren’t any configuration modifications for any group right now. This announcement just isn’t an advance-notice of any important modifications 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 title for the traditional Outlook for Home windows will likely be appended with “(traditional)” ranging from model 2407.
- Present installations of traditional Outlook by perpetual licensing will proceed to be supported till no less than 2029. For extra details about the supply 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 (Customary Launch). If customers are already a part of Focused Launch, new Outlook will honor that. For extra info on how updates for brand new Outlook work, please learn this help article.
- For migration sources, FAQs, and pattern templates to assist with migration planning, evaluation the migration package discovered right here: https://aka.ms/newOutlookAdoption
- For a useful checklist of all sources and documentation, see https://aka.ms/newOutlookResources
This GA milestone will allow extra organizations to begin their migration course of. We are going to proceed to make characteristic enhancements and monitor suggestions, so proceed to strive the brand new expertise and tell us what you need to see subsequent!
You’ll find the suggestions possibility below 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.