The new confusingly-named "Outlook for Windows" lacks features that are
in the Outlook of Office 365 or in the MS Office Outlook for the
desktop. There are some that are convinced that the MS goal is to
gradually enhance the "Outlook for Windows" and use a cross-platform
design, so at some point one application can take the place of the
desktop and web-based Outlook. But if you need a fully-functional
desktop email client today, the current "Outlook for Windows" is
probably not it.
JC Ewing
On 3/27/25 8:59 AM, Wendell Lovewell wrote:
Steve, you mentioned "mostly for Outlook". There is a "New" Outlook client
availble from the Microsoft store. It's very similar to the client in Office 365. But
Word/Excel/etc are not included. But there is a free version of Microsoft Word for the web too.
Having your own domain shouldn't matter. What matters is who you are using for
your email server. The New Outlook client can also retrieve/send email from/to
Gmail and SMTP servers.
As a disclaimer, we still license Office at work, and I have my own Office 2021
licenses for home. Mostly so I can do things the way I've always done them.
(Except for the PST files, but I haven't referenced those for years now.)
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Joel C Ewing
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