Microsoft
Microsoft is making the Outlook for Mac app free to make use of, the corporate announced this week. Beforehand obtainable with a Microsoft 365 account or as a part of the Office for Mac app suite, the Outlook app is downloadable from the Mac App Store and works with Outlook.com, Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, and plain previous IMAP and POP e-mail accounts.
Microsoft already gives a free model of the Outlook shopper for iOS and Android, and it is at present testing a preview of a redesigned Outlook app that may substitute the built-in Mail and Calendar apps that ship with Home windows 11.
The Mac model of the app would not use that new design—it is the same Outlook for Mac app that Microsoft rolled out again in late 2020—however the firm’s weblog put up says the corporate is engaged on “rebuilding Outlook for Mac from the bottom up.” This may presumably be the identical shopper that Microsoft is testing in Home windows, a part of the corporate’s “One Outlook” challenge (additionally referred to as Undertaking Monarch) that goals to supply a single unified mail shopper that appears and works the identical manner throughout all supported platforms.
A part of that One Outlook challenge means making all e-mail accounts look and act the identical manner in Outlook, and to make that occur, the Outlook app goes a bit additional than most mail purchasers when syncing with third-party e-mail suppliers. If you use non-Microsoft IMAP e-mail accounts like Gmail within the Outlook for Mac app, Microsoft will continuously sync emails, calendar appointments, and contacts to its personal servers, successfully sustaining a second copy of all the information that is already being saved by your e-mail supplier.
If nothing else, the brand new Outlook for Mac is a welcome different to Apple’s built-in Mail and Calendar apps, which work mainly high-quality more often than not however enhance little or no between macOS releases. Outlook for Mac will run on macOS 11.0 (Large Sur) or later, and like most of Microsoft’s apps as of late, it is a Common app binary that runs natively on each Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. It additionally helps Handoff options when utilizing the iOS model of Outlook on a telephone that is signed in to the identical iCloud account as your Mac.
