Microsoft Announces Major Changes Coming to Outlook.com
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*Over the past year, Microsoft has moved to consolidate similar but different products, among them Skype and Skype for Business, and OneDrive and OneDrive for Business. So it should come as no surprise that the software giant is moving Outlook.com ever closer to Office 365. And today, Microsoft announced the first steps it will take toward this consolidation.
Not surprisingly, this consolidation includes upgrading Outlook.com to an Office 365-based infrastructure over time. A bit surprisingly, it means that Outlook.com—which I have always felt has the superior user experience, on the web—is picking up features from Office 365, rather than the reverse. These include a refined inbox experience, new collaboration options, and an upgraded calendar, among others.
The Outlook.com update is rolling out today in preview form, Microsoft says, and is the first step towards this eventual back-end infrastructure migration. The new features will be made available to a broader audience via some form of opt-in program “in the coming weeks.*
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So is outlook.com going to be come full on exchange and have ActiveSync. Oddd. I pay for 0355 for home use (the Business Premium edition). Don't think I'd switch but it could be interesting to see.
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Well, they may say they consolidated Skype and Skype for Business, and OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, but the reality is they didn't!
Skype is still Skype and Skype for Business is just a rebranded Lync.
and the same goes for OneDrive and OneDrive for business (really just Sharepoint).Let's hope this is not the case for Outlook.com, i.e. they find some way to make a worse product than they have today.
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This article just makes Thurrott look like he's not even trying anymore. Does he not know these products at all?
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@scottalanmiller said:
This article just makes Thurrott look like he's not even trying anymore. Does he not know these products at all?
Only the opening few paragraphs (the ones quoted above) are ... wrong.. but yeah.. clearly he wasn't thinking about it when writing them.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
This article just makes Thurrott look like he's not even trying anymore. Does he not know these products at all?
Only the opening few paragraphs (the ones quoted above) are ... wrong.. but yeah.. clearly he wasn't thinking about it when writing them.
Problem is..... when the material you know is wrong, you must assume that the material you do not know is also wrong.
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If I hate to guess I'd just say It's just a UI change to make outlook.com look more like OWA
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@thecreativeone91 said:
If I hate to guess I'd just say It's just a UI change to make outlook.com look more like OWA
Very likely.
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but I trust MS with hotmail, livemail, outlook.com, or whatever you want to to call it. Every change MS has made since I created my hotmail account in 1996 has been positive.
