Today Outlook is as easy to understand and user-optimize as Mail.īuilding on feedback from its large user base, MS has kept the incremental improvements coming. His Holiness Jobs himself made peace with Microsoft to ensure that the best office suite remained available for the Mac.

While never particularly innovative in general, MS to its credit did gather and continue to refine the best & by far the most powerful productivity/office suite available for the Mac. Ok.įYI, it’s been several years since Gates or Ballmer were actively fscking up Microsoft. But to anonymous comedians here, apparently businesses & power users are always wrong to use anything but what came default on your Mac. Integrated calendar, powerful rules, and support for email templates have pushed Outlook far into the lead in professional usage. Objective reviewers know that Outlook, though once upon a time more complicated to learn, does several things better/faster/easier than Apple Mail (which is basic freebieware and has an interface that is a far cry from the glory days of Apple GUI leadership). Click or tap here to support our independent tech blog. MacDailyNews Take: If you have to use Outlook on your Mac(s), at least it’s free now. We are rebuilding Outlook for Mac from the ground up to be faster, more reliable, and to be an Outlook for everyone. There is more to do and many more features we are excited to bring to the Outlook Mac experience. With Outlook Profiles, you won’t get unwanted notifications at the wrong time so you can stay focused on that important work email, with no distractions from your personal email. The new Outlook Profiles (coming soon) allow you to connect your email accounts to Apple’s Focus experience. With our new Handoff feature, you can pick up tasks where you left off between iOS and Mac devices, so you can get up and go without missing a beat. We know life is multifaceted and Outlook is leveraging the Apple platform to support you by making it easier to switch contexts. We are also creating a peek of upcoming calendar events in the Menu Bar (coming soon). To help you stay on top of your email and calendar while using other apps, you can view your agenda using a widget and see reminders in the Notification Center. Outlook for Mac does more to integrate into the Apple platform so that you get the most from your macOS device. The new Outlook is optimized for Apple Silicon, with snappy performance and faster sync speeds than previous versions. And these enhancements go far beyond surface level. With Outlook, you’ll get a modern and beautiful user interface that has been designed and optimized for macOS. Jeremy Perdue for Microsoft’s Outlook Blog: Download Outlook for free in Apple’s Mac App Store here. Consumers can now use Outlook for free on macOS, no Microsoft 365 subscription or license necessary.

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