Microsoft persuades Mail and Calendar users to migrate to Outlook — Mail and Calendar app will cease to work after December 31

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persuades Mail and Calendar users to migrate to

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— Mail and Calendar app will cease to work after December 31

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is notifying its Mail and Calendar app users to switch to free web-based

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. Many users have reported noticing pop-ups from the app.

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insists users make the migration by December 31, 2024. After that date, the app will only display emails and calendar entries saved until the scheduled date.

The company published a support document emphasizing that the Mail and Calendar app will switch to read-only mode for old data after December 31, 2024.

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, however, will allow existing data, including emails, contacts, and events, to be exported to the

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option.

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advertises its free

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option as having ‘core

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security features’ with 15GB mailbox storage and 5GB cloud storage, web and mobile apps available, and paid options for larger cloud-based storage and support.

Despite this request,

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allows users to toggle to its Mail and Calendar app through Settings > General > About

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. The option to roll back is puzzling, considering there are only a few weeks left before the standalone app is rendered unusable.

Users, therefore, have no option other than to use the cloud-based

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or switch to other apps. Many shifted to Mozilla’s Thunderbird and will likely use it as a replacement.

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has warned its users that it will eventually have its Mail & Calendar app users switch to the open-source option for better security, but switching to a cloud-based app feels forced.

It should also be no surprise that

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’s standalone apps occasionally have issues, especially those affecting power users. Only three days ago, users noticed that its Classic

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app crashed when they opened more than 60 emails simultaneously.

Irrespective of

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’s final decision and claims that users get ‘the best of

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,’ many do not like migrating to a cloud-based app and interface changes, primarily because they have been using the interface for a very long time, which has been available through previous iterations of the operating system spanning more than two decades.

The difference between the experience of a standalone app and a cloud-based option is very noticeable. Hence, the decision to axe a reliable option leaves a bad taste among users, as the experience is not seamless and does not have the same functions.

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will unlikely reconsider this decision as it did in the past, leaving no other option but to use different apps available or to make a point via its store.

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