Microsoft’s plans to replace Mail with One Outlook as the email manager for Windows have been known for some time (it was initially only considered for Windows 11, but now it seems that it will make its way to Windows 10 as well). The company’s developers, known internally as Project Monarch, have been working for some time on this new application, with which Microsoft will try to capitalize on the name built around Outlook and perhaps attract the former users of Outlook Express, which was the first email. client for many Windows users between 1996, when it was launched, and 2009, when it ended its life cycle and was replaced by Windows Mail, which had been available since 2005.

I say that the plans are known, and it was not for nothing that we warned you about it already at the beginning of 2021, because the company has already released a trial version of One Outlook through the Microsoft Store for a limited number of users, during the last year.. Of course, not for use as the main e- mail client, because it is a trial version, but for testing it and of course getting as much Microsoft as possible feedback about how this is possible. Since then we have been waiting for new news about it.

And now, as we can, they have published FireCube account from twitter, Microsoft has started allowing multiple users to try One Outlook. But this time not through a Windows app store download, no, now it’s with a control that appears in the mail app that users who want it (if they’re among those who have this new option available, of course) can now start testing the new proposal from Redmond for managing their e-mail.

One Outlook is a progressive web application (PWA), a format that Microsoft likes a lot, based on how it has already used it with other Windows applications. And as for the name, it makes sense that they decided to unify their entire email management proposition under one banner. Recall that at that time Hotmail was “finished” and replaced by Outlook.com, and that the email applications for Android and iOS are also branded as Outlook, as well as the personal information manager on the web.

At this point, we don’t know when it will reach all users (although it doesn’t seem like it will be long, even though it’s in beta) or how long it will co-exist with Mail, much like it did over a year ago, a decade ago, but changed names because Mail was new at the time and Outlook (now One Outlook) was the one saying goodbye.