Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free

[ExMachina73]

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/03/06/microsoft-makes-outlook-for-mac-free

[_2z1p]

> Outlook for Mac is available from the Mac App Store as a 974MB download.

I’m used to software bloat, but this download is enormous for an email/calendaring client.

Does it include some sort of Windows compatibility layer to assist with porting and feature parity with the Windows version? I know Microsoft did something like that for the Linux port of SQL Server.

[CharlesW → _2z1p]

> Does it include some sort of Windows compatibility layer to assist with porting and feature parity with the Windows version?

No, but you’re not far off — the “new experience” is built on web technologies, a la VSCode.

[jbj]

just a few days late to get me to use outlook ... just last friday I was installing outlook to open a .msg file with attachments, the hassle of having to setup an account was enough to uninstall again and asses if I trusted a pip package to extract it for me. Much respect to those open source developers.

https://github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor

[kylehotchkiss]

Protip: If you make your email app free, developers might actually download it to test emails in it instead of perpetually ignoring it

[steponlego]

Why are they still making this? The law suit’s requirements lapsed like a decade ago.

[galleywest200 → steponlego]

My company has us using Outlook on MacOS. Most of the company is on Windows but operations/development are on MacOS. Although I have been using the Outlook Web Application more and more recently as the desktop application seems to lag after being open for a few days.

[aintgonnatakeit]

It’s pretty terrible. Free isn’t cheap enough.

[CharlesW → aintgonnatakeit]

As a daily user I prefer Apple Mail, but Outlook is perfectly fine. And the iOS version is really good.