About this tag
The roadmap tag on WindowsForum.com tracks Microsoft 365 Roadmap entries and the planning questions they raise for Windows and Office users. Recent discussion centers on Roadmap ID 557675, a new Outlook for Windows feature for sharing locally stored Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files directly from their Office apps. The thread highlights a documentation mismatch: the roadmap lists a November 2026 general-availability target, while Microsoft support documentation describes the same capability as available in August 2024. That unresolved conflict makes the roadmap label less clear than it appears, and it is the kind of scheduling and documentation discrepancy this tag follows.
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    New Outlook Local File Sharing: 2026 Plan Conflicts With 2024

    Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Roadmap now lists a November 2026 general-availability target for a new Outlook for Windows command that lets users send a locally stored Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file straight from its Office app. But Microsoft’s own support documentation describes the same...