Microsoft is killing off Windows 11’s Mail and Calendar apps by the end of the year

Microsoft is readying to nary longer enactment the Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps aboriginal this year. The bundle elephantine has been moving existing users of these apps implicit to the caller Outlook for Windows app successful caller months, and present it has set an extremity of enactment date for the Mail, Calendar, and People apps of December 31st.

Once the apps scope extremity of enactment aboriginal this year, Microsoft warns that users who haven’t moved to the caller Outlook app “will nary longer beryllium capable to nonstop and person email utilizing Windows Mail and Calendar.”

Microsoft has been rolling retired the caller Outlook for Windows app for years, with it officially reaching the wide availability signifier in August. The caller web-based Outlook is designed to yet regenerate the afloat desktop mentation of Outlook too, and Microsoft plans to supply endeavor customers a 12-month announcement earlier it starts to determination radical distant from the desktop mentation of Outlook.

Existing installs of classical Outlook done perpetual and subscription licenses volition proceed to beryllium supported until astatine slightest 2029, truthful it’s going to instrumentality immoderate clip for Microsoft to afloat determination each Outlook users to this caller app. It’s starting with the Mail and Calendar apps successful Windows aboriginal this year, followed by an opt-out signifier for Outlook connected Windows. You tin work much astir Microsoft’s timeline for the new Outlook for Windows here.