Outlook Classic or New Outlook in Office 365


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Having now got Classic Outlook to work in Office 365 and download lots of old but important emails I see an option to move to New Outlook. Is this another Microsoft horror story or is it worth doing the transition?

I understand that eventually Classic Outlook will cease to exist so should I jump now or wait for various fixes to be put in place?
 

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Personal taste. I do not like the new outlook and will continue to use classic as long as possible.
 

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MS will support old outlook till 2029. New outlook is not good enough, offline email can only be stored for 180 days.
 

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That it then. I most certainly do not want another Microsoft nightmare.
 

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New Outlook is still developing, as of now lacks the features of Classic Outlook, so I would think waiting a year or so makes sense.

I have been using it for around 10 months and has proved to be reliable, certainly not a nightmare, but I do not need fancy features.
You can get the state of developing features from MS.
 

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I wouldn't be in a hurry to switch to the new Outlook. I'm sticking with Outlook classic for the foreseeable future.
 

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Thank you for your reply. I reckon that that's the sensible thing to do.
 

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hellodongfang said:
offline email can only be stored for 180 days.
Click to expand...
Is Microsoft out of their mind? No PST files? No long-term offline email? How will that "improve" email? Or is this a plot for Outlook death by a dozen cuts?
 

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if the new outlook is only allowing imap I would‘t switch because my online provider doesn‘t allow me to create subfolders.
 

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It must have been the IMAP thing which allowed me to just download everything into ClassicOutlook. To be honest it was seamless.
 

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