Home windows 11 Mail & Calendar stops working after December 31, 2024
For the previous six months, Microsoft has been displaying pop-ups within the Mail & Calendar apps, urging everybody to modify to the brand new web-based Outlook for Home windows 11, however it seems that’s not sufficient. In a brand new assist doc, Microsoft has quietly confirmed that Mail & Calendar apps will cease working after December 31, 2024.
As Home windows Newest noticed in a support document, Microsoft famous that customers gained’t have the ability to ship or obtain emails utilizing the Home windows Mail and Calendar apps after December 31, 2024. On December 31, Microsoft will finish assist for Home windows Mail, Calendar, and Individuals apps.
After December 31, you’ll not have the ability to use Mail and Calendar apps to ship or obtain emails, and also you’ll be requested to make use of the brand new Outlook as a substitute. Nevertheless, for some cause, Microsoft says you’ll nonetheless have the choice to open the Mail & Calendar app by utilizing a toggle in new Outlook > Settings > Basic > About Outlook.
This is able to be probably a “view-only” as Microsoft just isn't killing off the app itself. You'll be able to return again to Mail & Calendar to view emails, drafts, contacts, and so on, however you’ll not have the ability to ship or obtain emails.
Home windows Newest understands that Outlook both will cease accepting connection requests from Mail & Calendar apps, or Microsoft will quickly push a brand new replace to make the app unusable. We don’t know what is going to occur precisely, however the days of Mail & Calendar apps are numbered.
You’ll both want to simply accept the brand new Outlook or use a third-party consumer.
The “finish of assist” particulars are considerably unclear, however if you open the Mail and Calendar apps, you may already see a pop-up titled “Mail and Calendar” have gotten “Outlook” with an exclamation mark.
You’ve the selection to both open the brand new Outlook or refuse to do it with “Not now”, however the second possibility is pointless as a result of if you open Mail & Calendar once more, you’ll be mechanically redirected to the brand new Outlook.
From there, you may nonetheless return to the Mail & Calendar app by unchecking the “New Outlook” toggle.
At the very least this lets you maintain utilizing Mail and Calendar till the subsequent reboot. You too can downgrade the Mail and Calendar apps to cease these pop-ups utterly, however that may also not work beginning December 31, 2024.
“Help for Home windows Mail, Calendar, and Individuals will finish on December 31, 2024,” a Microsoft official reaffirmed the assist doc assertion once we reached out to the corporate for extra particulars.
“We’re at present within the strategy of transferring present customers to the brand new Outlook for Home windows,” the corporate advised us the identical factor once we requested once more.
However what about your native emails, calendar occasions and contacts saved within the Mail & Calendar apps? Microsoft mentioned that it'll allow you to export all of your emails, contacts, occasions utilizing the “Export” function within the Mail & Calendar.
Microsoft may also allow you to export Mail & Calendar app information to the brand new Outlook in the course of the migration, which occurs mechanically within the above step (see the screenshot).
Though I like Home windows and Microsoft, I’m not an enormous fan of the brand new Outlook as a result of it’s only a web-based model and doesn’t match the standard of the Mail & Calendar apps or the traditional Outlook.
New Outlook is simply unhealthy, and Microsoft ought to rethink its resolution.