Microsoft’s plans to replace Mail with One Outlook as an email manager for Windows have been known for some time (initially it was thought only for Windows 11, but now it seems that it will also reach Windows 10). Known internally as Project Monarch, the company’s developers have been working on this new application for some time now, with which Microsoft will try to capitalize on the name built around Outlook and, perhaps, attract past users of Outlook Express, which was the first mail client for many Windows users between 1996, when it was released, and 2009, when it ended its life cycle and was replaced by Windows Mail, which had been available since 2005.
I say that the plans are known, and it was not for nothing that we already notified you of this at the beginning of 2021, because the company already released a trial version of One Outlook through the Microsoft Store, to a limited number of users, during the past year. . Not for the purpose of using it as the main email client, of course, since it is a trial version, but for testing it and, of course, getting Microsoft as much feedback about it as possible. Since then we have been waiting for new news about it.
Switch to One Outlook toggle in UWP Mail app suggests One Outlook will be new default Mail app#Windows11 pic.twitter.com/wsk0Rg0ma8
—FireCube (@FireCubeStudios) January 20, 2023
And now, as we can has published the FireCube account from Twitter, Microsoft has started enabling the option to try One Outlook for more users. However, this time not through a download in the Windows app store, no, now it is with a control that is displayed in the mail application, with which users who want it (if they are among the who have this new option available, of course) can now start testing the new proposal from Redmond to manage their email.
One Outlook is a progressive web application (PWA), a format that Microsoft likes a lot, based on the use that they have already made of it with other Windows applications. And regarding the name, it makes sense that they have decided to unify their entire email management proposal under a single banner. Let’s remember that at the time it “finished” Hotmail, replacing it with Outlook.com, and that the email apps for Android and iOS are also identified as Outlook, as is the personal information manager on the web.
We do not know at the moment when it will reach all users (although it seems that it will not take long, even if it is in beta version) or for how long it will coexist with Mail, in a similar way to the one that occurred a little over a year ago. decade, but with the names changed, because at that time Mail was the novelty and Outlook (now One Outlook) was the one that was saying goodbye.
