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Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free

• lockhouse 4y ago
  > Outlook for Mac is available from the Mac App Store as a 974MB download. I’m used to software bloat, but this download is enormous for an email/calendaring client. Does it include some sort of Windows compatibility layer to assist with porting and feature parity with the Windows version? I know Microsoft did something like that for the Linux port of SQL Server.
  • CharlesW 4y ago
    > Does it include some sort of Windows compatibility layer to assist with porting and feature parity with the Windows version? No, but you’re not far off — the “new experience” is built on web technologies, a la VSCode.
• kylehotchkiss 4y ago
  Protip: If you make your email app free, developers might actually download it to test emails in it instead of perpetually ignoring it
• steponlego 4y ago
  Why are they still making this? The law suit’s requirements lapsed like a decade ago.
  • galleywest200 4y ago
    My company has us using Outlook on MacOS. Most of the company is on Windows but operations/development are on MacOS. Although I have been using the Outlook Web Application more and more recently as the desktop application seems to lag after being open for a few days.
• aintgonnatakeit 4y ago
  It’s pretty terrible. Free isn’t cheap enough.
  • CharlesW 4y ago
    As a daily user I prefer Apple Mail, but Outlook is perfectly fine. And the iOS version is really good.
• jbj 4y ago
  just a few days late to get me to use outlook ... just last friday I was installing outlook to open a .msg file with attachments, the hassle of having to setup an account was enough to uninstall again and asses if I trusted a pip package to extract it for me. Much respect to those open source developers. https://github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor https://github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor