The clock is ticking for the previous Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps. Microsoft lately up to date the legit documentation to elucidate that with the tip of make stronger, the apps will forestall operating altogether on December 31, 2024. In different phrases, despite the fact that you set up to stay the brand new Outlook app away out of your laptop, the previous Mail app will lose its talent to ship and obtain mail in lower than two months.

Here is what Microsoft says within the now-updated make stronger file:

Support for Windows Mail, Calendar, and People will finish on December 31, 2024. We’re recently within the strategy of shifting present customers to the brand new Outlook for Windows. After December 31, 2024, customers will now not have the ability to ship and obtain e mail the use of Windows Mail and Calendar. Any native emails, calendar occasions, and contacts saved in Mail, Calendar, and People will stay exportable following the stairs in Export emails and contacts from Windows Mail or People and import to new Outlook.

Until lately, the file simplest discussed the tip of make stronger with out an particular clarification of ways it might impact the apps’ core options. Now, we all know that Microsoft will pressure everybody to make use of the brand new Outlook for Windows by way of chopping off the previous UWP Mail and Calendar purchasers from the times of Windows 10.

In its make stronger file, Microsoft says that with the brand new app, everybody “gets the best of Outlook” without spending a dime. In fact, even though, the brand new Outlook is universally hated for being a gradual internet app, missing options, and offering an total dangerous consumer revel in. Sadly, Microsoft is totally tone-deaf to the consumer’s voice and simply shoves the disliked utility down everybody’s throat. For many, switching to another e mail shopper will probably be a a lot better possibility than the brand new Outlook for Windows with all of its shortcomings.

Via WinFuture