“Calendars will sync faster, and we have eliminated any reliability issues when managing a calendar. “This is one of those improvements that should be invisible because it eliminates issues, but doesn’t change the core product functionality,” Microsoft said. Answering the question of what delegates will notice with the improvements, Microsoft said it hopes they don’t notice that anything has changed. People in an organization whom you choose to manage your calendar and appointments are known as “delegates,” and Microsoft is promoting the new changes as a boon to them. SEE: 50 time-saving tips to speed your work in Microsoft Office (free PDF) (TechRepublic) With the changes already released for Outlook on the web, Outlook for the Mac and Outlook for mobile, this means that all versions of Microsoft’s email client should deliver better results with shared calendars.
With Version 2103 of Outlook (March 2021 update), Microsoft removed the preview label for the calendar improvements, feeling that sufficient time had been spent testing and polishing the changes.Īt this point, around 10% of Outlook for Windows users with version 2103 have received the improvements, with the rest expected to see them in the spring and summer. In a blog post first seen by “The Verge,” Microsoft explained the background behind this latest development, calling it the “ biggest change to Outlook for Windows since its initial release in 1997.”įirst surfacing in a preview build of Outlook for Windows in July 2019, the shared calendar improvements had been opt-in only to allow interested parties to test it.
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As such, the goal is to eliminate those syncing problems people encountered in the past due to limitations in the software. Aimed at Outlook users who work with shared calendars, the new feature is designed to enhance the speed and reliability in the way updates to a shared calendar are synced for all users.
Microsoft is promising a major improvement to Outlook for Windows that it hopes people won’t even notice. The latest version of Outlook for Windows beefs up the speed and reliability of changes made to shared calendars. Microsoft touts biggest change to Outlook since 1997 with shared calendar improvements
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