We’re excited to announce the brand new Outlook for Home windows is now usually accessible for business clients and can now obtain full assist from Microsoft’s assist 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 solution 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 Might 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 usually accessible for private accounts.
Thanks in your continued assist and suggestions. We’re excited to achieve this milestone and stay up for your ongoing suggestions to make the brand new Outlook the very best 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 when you’re. 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 now 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. 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 basic 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 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 latest AI options like Copilot, the brand new Outlook empowers you to get extra executed and effortlessly keep up to the mark.
Options like urged textual content and urged replies assist you to cope with emails sooner 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’ll be able to 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 high of your inbox, and RSVPing to a gathering invite with “Observe” when you’ll be able to’t attend however wish to keep within the loop. You may also preserve 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 basic Outlook and reimagined it with fashionable 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 part within the new Outlook, share it via e mail or Groups and content material is up to date in actual time.
Picture exhibiting 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.
Kind / 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 possibly can arrange your working hours and placement, so your colleagues know when and the place you propose to work and after they set theirs, you’ll be able to see which teammates plan to be within the workplace to attach and collaborate together with your workforce.
Outlook helps you propose when to be within the workplace to attach and collaborate together with your workforce
There are many new options within the new Outlook. Under is a listing 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 needs 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 performed by Forrester Consulting, a part of an unbiased third-party analysis agency, decided that working the brand new Outlook is less expensive than basic Outlook; surveyed clients count on the brand new Outlook to cut back assist tickets as much as 65%, and cut 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 based mostly on interviewed clients.“[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 software 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 beneath:
o New Outlook adoption web site
o Obtain the infographic with key particulars on the monetary advantages of the brand new Outlook
You may also create a personalized monetary advantages report in your personal group in this interactive web site.
- Sooner 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 preserving customers updated and on essentially the most safe builds mechanically.
- Constant conduct
One expertise throughout Home windows in desktop and net reduces assist calls, coverage administration, and coaching prices – To estimate the monetary advantages of the brand new Outlook in your group, you’ll be able to 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 web site for a top level view of advantages, obtain the migration equipment, learn the most recent FAQ, and way more. An inventory of accessible sources may be discovered right here.
Key updates:
- There are not any configuration adjustments for any group right now. This announcement shouldn’t be 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 assist from Microsoft’s assist channels, together with Assisted Help.
- The app title for the basic Outlook for Home windows will probably be appended with “(basic)” ranging from model 2407.
- Current installations of basic Outlook via perpetual licensing will proceed to be supported till no less than 2029. For extra details about the provision of basic 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 Common Availability launch (Customary Launch). If customers are already a part of Focused Launch, new Outlook will honor that. For extra data on how updates for brand new Outlook work, please learn this assist article.
- For migration sources, FAQs, and pattern templates to assist with migration planning, overview the migration equipment discovered right here: https://aka.ms/newOutlookAdoption
- For a useful record of all sources and documentation, see https://aka.ms/newOutlookResources
This GA milestone will allow extra organizations to begin their migration course of. We’ll proceed to make function enhancements and monitor suggestions, so proceed to strive the brand new expertise and tell us what you wish to see subsequent!
Yow will discover 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.