Credo - I believe (Latin). Please allow me to try and change your mind: I own an MS Partner (secure http www dot blueloop dot net - ooh obfuscation missus!) I

Credo - I believe (Latin). Please allow me to try and change your mind: I own an MS Partner (secure http www dot blueloop dot net - ooh obfuscation missus!) I think we are currently "Silver" (whatever that means). It's a business relationship and that's all. We have a lot of MS "all in" customers that we have brought on and done as they ask to lead them to the cloud. We get rather little "kick back" in return and technical resources and support that don't exist but that is changing somewhat as we have tasked someone with sorting out all the little hurdles and minutae. It is a bloody faff though! I've been an IT consultant, personally, for 30 odd years. 1. Yes you can uninstall OneDrive but it has a habit of re-installing itself, whenever MSO is updated or the wind comes from the Nor'East. 2. They wont be replaced as such, desktop versions will simply fall out of support. Try a search here: (1) As far as I can tell, you are supposed to hit the webby versions instead. 3. The new version of Outlook is a web app dressed up as a desktop app. That's what electon web apps do. Nothing wrong with that but it is not really a desktop app anymore. I spend quite a lot of my time worrying about IT, given that I am a Managing Director of a small IT company. I've done this for 24 years. I've seen "FUD" and the like come and go over the years and have learned when to filter it out or not. It's now time for a particular change: "stuff my coffers with gold because COVID n that has screwed my finances". Ignore the AI bollocks that the world is fixating on, its all about the bottom line for a lot of firms and that means cough redistribution of wealth - ie we need to come up with innovative ways of parting you from your money. Lots of firms are now going all in on subscription based licensing to prop up the finances - it is practically a meme. VMware (Broadcom) is an obvious recent example in the news and MS has published end of life guidelines for quite a lot of products. (1) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/?products=office https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/?produc... (2) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/exchange-server-roadmap-update/ba-p/4132742 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/ex... (3) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/policies/modern https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/policies/modern You can either do as you are told or not ... the choice is yours.