I had never heard of that COM integration feature people would miss, but regarding email, calendar and contacts, I've been using Outlook web at work for two yea

I had never heard of that COM integration feature people would miss, but regarding email, calendar and contacts, I've been using Outlook web at work for two years, and it works perfectly fine for my simple use case. Some colleagues insist on using the desktop version or even Thunderbird, and I honestly can't see why they bother. Perhaps Microsoft considers simple use cases like mine to be the norm. That could explain the plan to discontinue support for the desktop client in 2029(!!).