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The latest 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...
Microsoft Retires Outlook's Context IQ: What the / Shortcut's Death Means for Your Email Workflow
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Outlook Contact Lists vs. Microsoft 365 Groups: What Every Windows User Needs to Know
Microsoft’s latest Outlook for Windows has quietly renamed one of its handiest features—and it’s leaving users scratching their heads. Where classic Outlook called it a ‘contact group,’ the...
Microsoft 365 Routing Failure Takes Down Outlook Logins and Copilot Access
Thousands of Microsoft 365 users were unable to sign into Outlook or access Copilot on Friday after a routing configuration change triggered a widespread outage. The disruption, which began just...
Outlook Login and Sending Failures Spike Friday Morning, Microsoft Yet to Confirm Outage
Outlook users across North America and Europe encountered widespread login failures and email sending problems early Friday, according to a surge of complaints on social media and outage-tracking...
Microsoft Outlook to get a ‘you’re replying to an old message’ alert – here’s what it means for you
Microsoft has confirmed a feature that many Outlook users have been asking for: a warning that pops up when you are about to reply to an older message in a conversation, instead of the latest...
Microsoft Tells Admins to Pause Outlook Shared Calendar Rollout Amid Delegate and Attachment Bugs
A critical support notice from Microsoft on March 9, 2026 is urging IT administrators to immediately halt broad deployment of the Outlook shared calendar improvements, following the discovery of two...
Microsoft Scout: The Always-On AI Agent Set to Transform Microsoft 365 Workflows Arrives in Enterprise Preview
Microsoft has taken the wraps off Scout, an always-on AI agent designed to operate autonomously across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Revealed at Build 2026, Scout promises to fundamentally change how...
Outlook 2026 'Project Hermes' Debuts AI Inbox Summaries & Calendar Control
Microsoft is gearing up to inject a powerful new suite of AI capabilities into Outlook, with a major Copilot expansion slated for 2026. Internal planning documents reveal a roadmap that turns the...
Microsoft Copilot Agents: How AI Moves From Chat to Action in Outlook and Office
Microsoft is fundamentally redefining what Copilot can do by transforming it from a reactive chat assistant into proactive agents that execute tasks across Outlook, Office, and Windows. The company's...
January 2026 Windows Update Causes Critical Outlook PST Corruption When Stored in OneDrive
Microsoft's January 2026 cumulative Windows updates have triggered a catastrophic data corruption issue affecting users who store Outlook PST files in OneDrive. The KB5041587 update for Windows 11...
Microsoft Copilot's Automatic Rescheduling: How AI is Revolutionizing Outlook & Teams Calendars
Microsoft's Copilot is taking another practical step out of the lab and into the day-to-day grind: Outlook can now automatically reschedule your personal appointments and one-on-one meetings when...