"In April 2023, Microsoft started pushing an option to Microsoft 365 users to switch their desktop Outlook programs to the New Outlook as well. This has been op

"In April 2023, Microsoft started pushing an option to Microsoft 365 users to switch their desktop Outlook programs to the New Outlook as well. This has been optional for Insiders for a while, but now everyone gets a taste of the New Outlook. One of the key benefits appears to be full support for 3rd party e-mail and calendars, such as the very popular GMail. No doubt that many home users will welcome this option, but if Microsoft 365, which shares its code base with perpetually licensed Microsoft Office packages, loses Outlook, this will be one less reason for Microsoft to keep improving it." All the Microsoft Office seems to be going to web programming for use on the Microsoft 365 websites and a unified codebase for PWAs / "native" clients that are WebViews or similar. This leads me to believe that the future of Windows is as a ChromeOS-like thin client with everything happening in Azure to maximize Azure use, enable Copilot / AI, and increase subscription revenues.