These new features for the new Outlook will make you forget about the classic Outlook

The new Outlook is getting a lot of new features over the following months, and we’ve covered some of them, including the Copilot feature, the ability to save attachments everywhere on your device or share local files from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

However, it seems that Microsoft is adding a list of new features, including those we mentioned, but a lot that we haven’t covered.

These features will be coming to the new Outlook only, as Microsoft will retire the classic Outlook by 2025, most likely. The classic version will still get new features, and some AI capabilities will be coming to the platform soon, but as a whole, it will be retired.

The new features should make anyone consider migrating to the new Outlook, as they will be quite useful in a lot of situations. Let’s take Copilot, for example, which will be able to emulate users’ style of writing to come up with emails and replies.

But there are many more features. Below you’ll find the list of all the new features coming to the new Outlook.

All the new features coming to the new Outlook

• Auto capitalization 
• Collapsible headers in the message list 
• Conditional formatting 
• Copilot 
• Drag and drop emails and attachments to the desktop  
• Dictation
• Preserve declined meetings 
• EML file support 
• File tab in Outlook search 
• Folder reordering 
• Inking (Draw tab) while composing an email 
• MSG file support 
• Offline support 
• Outbox folder 
• Picture formatting 
• POP3 account support 
• PST file support 
• Message Recall 
• S/MIME 
• Save as for attachments (choose folder to save to) 
• Share local files from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 
• Shared calendar notifications for work accounts 
• Teams tab in search 

As you can see, a lot of them are self-explanatory, and most of them are very practical. Some of these features were already released on Outlook, with Copilot being released this month. The rest of them will make their way to the platform in 2024.

And we even know for sure about a capability coming to Outlook in February 2024: a button option to initiate email sync is coming to Outlook for Windows and Outlook for web, and it might turn it into the most successful email platform.

What do you think about them? Are they enough to make you migrate to the new Outlook?