Microsoft has threatened to remove Windows Mail and substitute it with a brand new Outlook app. Now it’s already doing so, making an attempt to wrest it away from you earlier than its end-of-the-year self-imposed deadline.

I’ll by no means hand over, Microsoft!

I love Mail, and have so for years. It’s centered, practical, and information-dense. Virtually the whole lot that I would like it to do, it does. Yes, it lacks any Copilot integration, however Microsoft hasn’t satisfied me that I would like that to handle my schedule or writer emails for me, but. The downside is that Microsoft is making an attempt to take Mail away from me.

A few months in the past Mail popped up this message, beneath. Then it did so once more on Friday.

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Mark Hachman / IDG

Mark Hachman / IDG

I took the identical steps then as I did now: cursed, closed Mail, restarted Mail, cursed once more as Outlook opened, after which discovered the button to eliminate it.

The “new” Outlook is an internet app. It’s sluggish to load, filled with extraneous info, and easily doesn’t provide the very focused, tailor-made expertise that Mail presents. I could also be dwelling prior to now, however I perceive how Mail (and the associated Calendar app) work, and I can merely get issues accomplished rapidly and successfully.

Fortunately, Microsoft presents a rip twine throughout the new Outlook app itself. To the higher proper is a toggle To shut down the brand new Outlook and return to Mail. Click it:

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Mark Hachman / IDG

Mark Hachman / IDG

At this level you will have an choice to ship suggestions to Microsoft, explaining why you’ve given up on Outlook and gone again to the previous. I’d advocate that you concentrate on utilizing this kind to clarify why Mail is the superior choice and why you’d want that Microsoft hand over on the brand new Outlook as an alternative. Or not less than preserve Mail as an choice contained in the Microsoft Store, because it has accomplished with another purposes.

Why? Because as you allow Outlook behind within the rear-view mirror, this ominous observe seems. Outlook might be again, and it’ll return by the tip of the 12 months.

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Mark Hachman / IDG

Mark Hachman / IDG

You see, like different horror villains of the previous — Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, or Michael Myers — Outlook by no means actually dies. It will return. You can strive begging Microsoft for mercy. Otherwise, there’s nothing you are able to do about it however to only hold working and to wish that new Outlook doesn’t discover you.