{"id":13352,"date":"2025-03-04T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=13352"},"modified":"2025-03-04T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:01:07","slug":"has-outlook-classic-been-dropped-from-microsoft-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=13352","title":{"rendered":"Has Outlook \u201cclassic\u201d been dropped from Microsoft 365?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” column_structure=”2_3,1_3″][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”2_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]

Late last year, we commented on the new Outlook<\/a>, and how it wasn\u2019t being appreciated as much as Microsoft might like.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NewOutlookToggle.png” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” title_text=”NewOutlookToggle” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]

Our view on this has only been reinforced with most clients preferring the \u2018classic\u2019 version that we are all used to.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]

We\u2019re now seeing that the Classic version of Outlook has been dropped from some Microsoft 365 installations as standard.<\/h2>\n

On new computers<\/strong> \u2013 Starting in 2025, only the new Outlook will be preinstalled. The classic Outlook will be available only as a separate download, confirmed by Microsoft.<\/p>\n

New Microsoft 365 installations<\/strong> \u2013 Reports indicate that fresh Microsoft 365 installs for Windows include only the new Outlook, not the classic version.<\/p>\n

This is widely reported but not officially announced by Microsoft, conflicting with their promise of a 12-month notice for the “Opt out” phase.<\/p>\n

The good news is that we still can install the old version. \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It is just an extra step and a little time consuming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you encounter this on your home machine, look for Outlook as a separate download from the Microsoft Store<\/a>. \u00a0You will need a personal Microsoft 365 plan<\/p>\n

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Late last year, we commented on the new Outlook, and how it wasn\u2019t being appreciated as much as Microsoft might like.Our view on this has only been reinforced with most clients preferring the \u2018classic\u2019 version that we are all used to.We\u2019re now seeing that the Classic version of Outlook has been dropped from some Microsoft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}