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Microsoft Planner is coming directly to the new Outlook for Windows, giving users a place to manage personal tasks and shared plans beside their email and calendar. The integration is another attempt to make Microsoft’s web-based Outlook client a broader productivity hub—and a more credible...

Microsoft has marked Roadmap ID 496371 as launched, bringing the ability to attach files to draft messages while offline in the new Outlook for Windows. The change closes a conspicuous gap in the app’s offline mode: users could create drafts and queue mail in the Outbox without a connection, but...

Microsoft has marked a GCC roadmap item for importing email from Outlook Data Files into a mailbox in the new Outlook for Windows as launched. Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 485740 lists General Availability in April 2026, limits the item to Government Community Cloud, and says additional PST...

Additional coverage of this story: New Outlook Adds PST Calendar and Contact Import The companion coverage frames the feature for Worldwide Standard Multi-Tenant rather than GCC, lists Roadmap ID 486839 with June 2026 availability, and adds a cautious administrator test-and-validation checklist...

Microsoft’s roadmap says GCC users of new Outlook for Windows can import PST calendars and contacts into a mailbox, with General Availability listed for July 2026. It does not yet document the import steps, prerequisites, or duplicate handling. That makes this a rollout-status and pilot guide...

Microsoft has launched read-only access to contacts stored inside Outlook Data Files, or .pst files, in the new Outlook for Windows for Government Community Cloud users, with general availability dated September 2025 under Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 485756 and the status now marked Launched. The...

Microsoft is adding three inbox-management features to the new Outlook app for Windows 10 and Windows 11 this fall: an August rollout for stale-thread reply warnings, and September rollouts for automatic-reply templates and drag-and-drop category assignment through Favorites for mail. The...

Microsoft has launched LDAP directory support for S/MIME in the new Outlook for Windows, with general availability listed for May 2026 across desktop clients in Worldwide Standard Multi-Tenant and GCC clouds, according to Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 518287 updated on July 6, 2026. The change...

Microsoft is rolling out a July 2026 Outlook update that lets Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web users choose whether email preview text in the message list takes two lines, one full line, or no additional lines. That sounds like a small view-setting tweak because it is one. But in the...

Microsoft said on July 1, 2026, that New Outlook for Windows has gained broader .PST support, including improved search and import behavior, while still requiring Classic Outlook to be installed in the background for local data-file access. That is the kind of sentence Microsoft wants to sound...

Microsoft confirmed on June 9, 2026, that new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web will group email notifications that arrive within seconds, with rollout beginning in late June and broader availability expected by mid-September. That is a sensible fix to a real annoyance, but it also...

Microsoft’s June 2026 roadmap push for the new Outlook for Windows adds mail merge improvements, an all-accounts inbox, folder-count controls, Office file sharing, and notification work, but the changes arrive while Outlook Classic remains the more dependable client for many Windows 11 users...

Admins should pilot Outlook Mail Merge (Advanced) in June 2026 for low-risk internal or departmental communications, but they should not replace Word-based mail merge and classic Outlook workflows until Microsoft proves the new Outlook and web implementation can handle real production edge...

Microsoft has confirmed that the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web are slated to gain a unified All Accounts inbox in August 2026, alongside advanced mail merge, broader .PST import support, favorite-folder improvements, conditional formatting, and calendar-selection refinements...

Microsoft is using a fresh list of more than 15 productivity features in the new Outlook for Windows, highlighted in early June 2026, to persuade classic Outlook users that the web-based replacement is finally ready for daily use. The pitch is not subtle: pinning, snoozing, Sweep, scheduled...

Microsoft has highlighted 15 recent improvements to the new Outlook for Windows as it continues moving users away from Windows Mail and Calendar, but the reaction from many Windows users in June 2026 remains blunt: feature additions are welcome, yet trust has not caught up. That gap is now the...

Microsoft has pushed the enterprise “opt‑out” start for the New Outlook for Windows out by roughly one year — moving the phase Microsoft had targeted for April 2026 to March 1, 2027 — a change the company says gives organizations twelve months of lead time while it finishes key features and...

Microsoft’s quietly revised calendar for replacing the decades‑old desktop Outlook has just handed enterprise IT teams another 12 months of runway: the enterprise “opt‑out” phase that would make the New Outlook the default for Microsoft 365 tenants has been pushed from April 2026 to March 1...

Microsoft’s quietly revised schedule for the New Outlook rollout gives enterprises more breathing room — but it also exposes the technical fault lines, planning pitfalls, and governance choices that IT teams must confront before the company flips the default for business users in March 2027...

Microsoft has pushed the enterprise opt‑out phase for the “new Outlook for Windows” from April 2026 to March 2027, giving administrators a full extra year to prepare — a move that confirms both the scale of enterprise migration challenges and the persistent feature gaps that keep many...