{"id":36489,"date":"2023-03-08T07:37:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T12:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=36489"},"modified":"2023-03-09T09:26:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:26:39","slug":"microsoft-makes-outlook-for-mac-users-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-makes-outlook-for-mac-users-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac users free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">Microsoft has announced that its Outlook app for Mac is now free to use, no longer requiring a Microsoft 365 subscription or license. Microsoft has optimized Outlook for Apple Silicon in order to improve speed and sync performance. Outlook for Mac is now available as a free download.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">Outlook may be a viable alternative to Apple Mail for Mac users. Users can use Outlook with non-Microsoft services, including Gmail and iCloud email. Microsoft is also providing widget support for Outlook\u2019s calendar feature, and a Menu Bar mini-app is coming soon.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">Outlook for Mac was previously built using Microsoft&#8217;s cross-platform toolkit, which resulted in a slower and less reliable user experience. Outlook for Mac&#8217;s new native version is designed specifically for the macOS platform, resulting in improved performance and integration with other macOS features like calendar, contacts, and notifications.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">Outlook for Mac is free to download from the App Store. Although Handoff between Apple devices requires the App Store release, a direct download from Microsoft is also available. Considering upgrading to the all-new Outlook for Mac? Leave your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">Microsoft already provides a free version of the Outlook client for iOS and Android, and it is currently testing a preview of a redesigned Outlook app that will replace Windows 11&#8217;s free built-in Mail and Calendar apps.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">The Mac version of the app does not use the new design\u2014it is the same Outlook for Mac app that Microsoft released in late 2020\u2014but the company is working on &#8220;rebuilding Outlook for Mac from the ground up,&#8221; according to a blog post.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">According to Microsoft, the next version of Outlook for Mac will remain a &#8220;native Mac app&#8221; rather than a Progressive Web App (PWA), as the redesigned Windows app is. This presumably means that the clients will continue to look and work slightly differently depending on which platform you&#8217;re using, but aside from the fact that it exists, we don&#8217;t know much about the new Outlook for Mac app.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"8\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/03\/07\/microsoft_makes_outlook_mac_native\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheRegister<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that its Outlook app for Mac is now free to use, no longer requiring a Microsoft 365 subscription or license. Microsoft has optimized Outlook for Apple Silicon in order to improve speed and sync performance. Outlook for Mac is now available as a free download. Outlook may be a viable alternative to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-36489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36491,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36489\/revisions\/36491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}