Microsoft Outlook
The latest Microsoft Outlook coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft pulls free Outlook meeting-prep feature, puts it behind Copilot paywall
Microsoft will begin removing the Meeting Insights feature from Outlook in mid-August 2026, completing the retirement by mid-September. The built-in tool that automatically surfaced relevant emails...
The Email Signature Gap: Why Your Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail Signatures Don't Match (and How to Fix It)
You set a professional email signature on your computer. You crafted it with your name, title, phone number, and a crisp company logo. But when you send a message from your phone, the recipient sees...
Outlook Will Soon Let You Drag Emails Straight onto Category Favorites
Microsoft plans to ship a small but immediately practical Outlook improvement this September: you’ll be able to pin a mail category to your Favorites bar and apply it to messages just by dragging...
Microsoft Targets May 2026 for LDAP-Based S/MIME Certificate Lookup in New Outlook for Windows
Microsoft has finally set a timeline for bringing LDAP directory lookups for S/MIME certificates to the new Outlook for Windows, listing general availability for May 2026. The update, which appears...
Microsoft Service Change Sparks Global Outlook Sign-In Outage on April 27, 2026
On Monday, April 27, 2026, a Microsoft service change triggered a widespread outage, preventing Outlook users from signing into their accounts. Users reported intermittent authentication failures,...
Microsoft’s New Outlook Will Group Back-to-Back Email Alerts Starting Late June – But Click Lag Still a Thorn
Microsoft has officially confirmed that a much-requested notification grouping feature will begin rolling out to the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web in late June 2026. The...
From Office 365 to Google: CalendarBridge Surpasses 100K Users, 4M Events Synced
CalendarBridge’s cross-platform calendar synchronization and AI scheduling platform has crossed the 100,000-user mark, the company announced on June 23, 2026, a milestone accompanied by another...
New Outlook’s 10-Second Windows 11 Notification Lag Exposes Flaw in Microsoft’s Modern App Strategy
A freshly published report from Windows Latest reveals a glaring performance gap in Microsoft’s next-generation Outlook for Windows. When a Windows 11 notification alerts you to a new email,...
NASA's Artemis II Mission Rocked by Outlook Duplicate Crash on Surface Pro, Highlighting Deep-Space IT Gaps
On April 2, 2026, as the Artemis II spacecraft hurtled toward the Moon, Commander Reid Wiseman radioed Mission Control with an unexpected emergency—not a hardware failure or trajectory anomaly, but...
CVE-2026-45458: The Outlook and Word RCE That Turns Emails Into Attack Vectors
Microsoft’s security team dropped a critical advisory for CVE-2026-45458 this Patch Tuesday, sending IT admins scrambling to assess the damage. The flaw, rated 8.4 on the CVSS scale, enables remote...
Outlook June 2026 Update Adds Dynamic Columns for Email Size and Due Dates When Sorting
Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web will gain a subtle but impactful enhancement in June 2026. An update listed on the Microsoft 365 roadmap reveals that the email client will...
Agentic Copilot in Outlook: AI Autonomously Triages, Drafts, and Schedules
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a new class of Outlook capabilities. The spring 2026 rollout introduces agentic Copilot features for Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers enrolled in the Frontier...