The default Mail and Calendar apps are scheduled to be sunset next year with Monarch combining both functions into the one application. Microsoft will start previewing Monarch towards the end of the year. Microsoft wants to ensure that it feels "native" to each platform while still adhering to the same look and feel as the Outlook website. For example, Monarch will include support for offline storage, notifications, and share targets. While you can technically install Outlook as a Progressive Web App (PWA) now, it doesn't have all of the integrations that Monarch will have. Windows Central says that Microsoft looks to have a single user experience and will be accessible to all customers, business and consumers.
Project Monarch will be built on a single codebase in order to simplify deployment across platforms. The effort is called Project Monarch and will look to replace all Microsoft email clients, including the default Windows Mail app. This is part of Microsoft's "One Outlook" initiative that seeks to unify Outlook regardless of platform.
Microsoft will eschew dedicated desktop apps for Outlook in lieu of a single client powered by the web, according to Windows Central. This also seems to be part of a larger initiative to revitalize the Microsoft brand to be amicable to all platforms. This would allow Microsoft to have a shared experience across platforms without having to deal with differing code bases. This may be all different for businesses, but I deal with home users.Why it matters: Microsoft is looking to simplify its Outlook apps by using a single client powered by the web. In short, I hate Outlook and never want to see it again. You have to TELL IT to look for new emails, which I've never had to do in Hotmail.Īnd a lot of people get so used to Outlook (somehow), and just logging in to check their emails that they forget their user name and password, then there's a mad scramble of them throwing open drawers and going through papers to find where they wrote down their email address and password 5 years ago.Īnd unless they wrote down the config settings (VERY RARE), once I bring a freshly reloaded PC back to them we have to call their ISP to get their incoming/outgoing addresses and server type reset. And few people ever think to back up their emails or addresses until they are having serious computer problems.Īnd the whole Send/Receive thing.
Most home users have it set as POP3, so I can't just reformat a hard drive without saving their emails and address book first. I've been using Hotmail for 10 years, and my only complaint is that to change accounts to check another of my Hotmail accounts, I have to close out IE6 and re-enter. I do work on people's computers, 99% home computers, and have gotten to the point where I dread hearing them say they use Outlook for email.
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