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Already starting January 1, 2025, the company will no longer support applications such as Mail (“Mail”), Calendar (“Calendar”) and Contacts (“Contacts”) that store your contacts. You can instead continue to use all its functionality in a single Outlook service, 24 Channel reported, citing the Microsoft blog.

Microsoft says that after support for the applications ends, users who have not switched to Outlook “will no longer be able to send and receive email using Windows Mail and Calendar.”

The new Outlook for Windows was released in 2022, but rolled out slowly, so the company continued to support the old separate services. Finally the program Available to everyone in August 2024So, developers are now ready to say goodbye to outdated applications.

What’s interesting about Outlook:

• Outlook is completely free and offers all the old features and many new features in one program.
• On the left, you can access a sidebar with icons for opening mail, calendar, notepad, Word and Excel cloud services, and the option to pin more sections using the menu below; Just right-click on the desired icon and select “Pin”.
• You can customize the way mail is displayed with the email reading box on the right or bottom right, display a full or simplified menu bar, show or hide folders and favorites area, adjust density, and open the “My Day” window. “Sidebar in your calendar that will show you everything you have planned for today and more.
• Overall, every part of Outlook is highly customizable, so you can make it any way you want while still getting a new design that’s consistent with all other Microsoft services.