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The latest New Outlook coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Restarts Planner Rollout in New Outlook, Tightening Task and Inbox Integration
Microsoft is resuming the rollout of Planner inside the new Outlook for Windows, placing team and personal task management directly into the email client after a two-month pause. The integration,...
Outlook for Windows Finally Closes the Offline Attachment Gap — Worldwide Rollout Complete
On July 13, 2026, Microsoft marked Roadmap ID 496371 as launched, putting a long-awaited feature into users’ hands: the new Outlook for Windows can now attach files to email drafts while completely...
Government Cloud Users Can Now Import PST Files Directly into New Outlook Mailboxes
Microsoft has quietly checked off a long-standing request for its U.S. government cloud customers, marking Roadmap ID 485740 as launched. The feature—importing email from Outlook Data Files (.pst)...
New Outlook for Government Gets Long-Awaited PST Import—But You’ll Wait Until 2026
Microsoft has quietly added a roadmap entry promising that government customers using the new Outlook for Windows will finally be able to import calendar and contact data from PST files directly into...
Government Cloud Users Finally Get PST Contacts Access in New Outlook
Microsoft has started rolling out read‑only access to contacts stored in Outlook Data Files (.pst) for Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers using the new Outlook for Windows. The feature,...
New Outlook for Windows Gets Reply Warnings This Month, Templates and Auto-Categorization in September
Starting later this month, the new Outlook app for Windows will quietly caution you before you fire off a reply to an email thread that’s gone cold. The stale-thread warning is the first of three...
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’s July 2026 Outlook Update Adds Long-Awaited Preview Text Control
Microsoft is giving Outlook users direct control over how much email preview text clogs up their message list. The change, posted to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap on July 6, 2026, introduces a simple...
New Outlook Gains .PST Search and Import Powers, Yet Classic Outlook Still Looms for Archives
Microsoft’s latest update to the New Outlook for Windows, unveiled on July 1, 2026, delivers long-awaited search and import capabilities for Personal Storage Table (.PST) files, yet the reliance on...
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...
Microsoft’s June 2026 Outlook Roadmap Exposed: Mail Merge Returns, Unified Inbox Arrives, and Admins Sound the Alarm
A newly surfaced internal roadmap for the new Outlook for Windows has pinned June 2026 as the delivery window for several headline features that business users and IT administrators have been...
Microsoft Advises Caution as Advanced Outlook Mail Merge Enters Pilot in June 2026
Microsoft is set to roll out a new Advanced Mail Merge feature directly inside Outlook for Windows and the web, with a pilot phase beginning in June 2026. But the company is telling IT administrators...