How to test the future appearance of Microsoft Outlook

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Microsoft’s Outlook and e-mail applications on Windows, Mac and the web have undergone significant changes in the coming months as part of the company’s “One Outlook” initiative. Why wait, though? You can get a preview of what will transform your Outlook experience right now.

At the end of this year, you can expect Microsoft to standardize the user experience in Outlook applications on Mac, Windows, and the web, as well as Mail & Calendar applications in Windows 10. Then, in 2022, each of these applications will have moved to a new “Monarch” client, which means you will use the same application on all platforms.

Conformable Windows Central, Microsoft says new Monarch client will add more operating system integrations for Windows and Mac, including “offline storage, target sharing, notifications,” so new Outlook will feel like a native application on every operating system desktop or web browser you use.

The launch of these changes will be slow, but you can get a preview of the new cross-platform interface by installing the new Progressive Mail (PWA) web application today.

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How to install Outlook PWA on Edge Chromium:

  1. Go to outlook.com.
  2. Click “…” to open the menu
  3. Access applications, click “Install this site as an application.”
  4. The PWA will open after the installation is complete.

On Google Chrome:

  1. Open outlook.com in a new tab.
  2. Click on “+” from the far right of the URL bar (this may take a while to appear. Try clicking on the URL bar if it doesn’t appear).
  3. Click “Installation” when asked.

Compared to Mail and Calendar applications in Windows 10, the look of Outlook PWA is much simpler. It lacks visual customization options that you could use to edit Outlook in the wild, but it’s much cleaner and includes the same email features, as well as Calendar and to-do list views. The similarity should facilitate the transition to PWA – or, finally, the new interface for the various Outlook and Mail applications at the end of this year –

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Outlook PWA also includes shortcuts easily accessible to other MS applications, such as Word, OneDrive, One Note, Meet, and Skype. You can even manage your Xbox Live and Skype accounts in profile settings if they use the same email address.

This is already a much more robust surface level integration into the MS ecosystem and I am curious to see how it will expand with the launch of Monarch in 2022.

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