Hopefully there’ll be a public preview sometime in 2022. See Project Monarch or One Outlook to rule them all for more. This future Outlook would work online and offline, caching data on the local computer for faster and disconnected access. That means an “Outlook” that works on both Windows and Mac. The concept is a Outlook like program that works in a browser, any modern browser on any platform. We’ve talked about Project Monarch before, it’s now called either One Outlook or just Outlook. Microsoft has been working on a replacement for Outlook that will work across all platforms. One for Mac Office generally and the other specifically aimed at Outlook for Mac. Still, there are two little glimmers of hope. It’s in Microsoft’s interest to keep Office for Windows as the better version of Office. In short: Office for Mac development more expensive to reach a lot fewer customers. There’s nothing new in this, Microsoft has been perusing the same Windows and Office cross-promotion ever since the first Word for Windows. It’s very much in Microsoft’s interest to ensure that Windows is superior to other platforms and that includes making Office for Windows the best and most feature-rich version of Microsoft Office. That means Microsoft gets more value from development for their Windows apps than any other platform.Īnd Windows is also Microsoft product. Mac users only represent about 6-10% of computers (there are different stats in that range) with Windows taking up the lions share of the market. That especially applies to Outlook which has a very different database system in Windows (PST/OST files) that can’t work on a Mac. Though there’s now more common code between Windows and Mac versions of Office, adding Office for Windows features to Office for Mac is a lot of work. Mac feature parity isn’t in Microsoft’s corporate interestįirst the hard reality that guides Microsoft’s attitude to the Mac version of Office, even though they’ll never say it publicly. There are two small glimmers of hope that Outlook for Mac users can hold onto, more on that in a moment.ĭon’t blame the messenger …. Vague promises with no deadlines or Same old song, different decade. Microsoft is “fully committed to Office for Mac” and “working hard to improve Office for Mac”, “great things to come” yadda, yadda … blah, blah blah. If Microsoft responds, we can predict what they’ll say, because its the same line they’ve trotted out for two decades. Is that too much to ask? José Rodríguez-Suárez January 15, 2022 should provide macOS/Windows feature parity in Outlook.
As I increasingly use my MacBook Pro, it becomes more evident that for Mac is crude as compared with #Outlook for Windows.
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