Microsoft Outlook Step forward or backward

Mail and mail client will always be an important part of daily communication among webmasters and also everyday use. Mail clients like Outlook have been a fixture for many users for a long time. Since the beginning it has been known as a reliable mail client or program which is the choice of companies and individuals for their email. In this blog post we shine some more light on how Outlook is changing, and how this fits in with mail.

Email at MijnHostingPartner.nl is an essential part of our service, with many thousands of email addresses that we manage this is always at the top of our service. With the email hosting of MijnHostingPartner.nl you can create unlimited email accounts and always be assured of your latest email on any email client of your choice. Including Microsoft Outlook.

Microsoft has had Outlook different on other platforms for years, for example Outlook on Windows, Mac, Android and IOS are all not the same. And they also look different on each different platform. With the latest updates to Microsoft Outlook, attempts are being made to make this all a little more similar. This is obviously a good thing for not only development, but also for users.

Improvements to Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook like any other software program does not stand still, improvements and updates ensure that new technology is supported. There are quility off life improvements going out and it can be worked with differently. Microsoft's goal is to merge the Outlook client into 1 client and 1 way of working. This idea is to unify the code and underlying technology, making it easier to make updates for all devices. Instead of having to do it separately for each device or operating system. Users who use Outlook on multiple devices can therefore experience the same operation.

Exchange

Microsoft Exchange accounts are email accounts where it is possible to receive push notifications directly on each device. Where an IMAP connection, for example, scans the server every 15 minutes for new email, Exchange immediately pushes this through with an active connection to the server, not a passive one. Combine that with a calendar that is also immediately forwarded to multiple apartments and you have a reliable email account for businesses. The main target group for a Microsoft Exchange account.

Exchange is changing though and Microsoft has changed in the latest updates how licenses are handled, and how Exchange email is synchronized on devices. For the licenses, Microsoft will switch to a subscription form of licensing in 2021. This is to address the initial rather high cost of an exchange account in a different way. How MijnHostingPartner.nl will deal with this we will pick up when more is known about this. The goal of Microsoft is to have less licenses installed locally on servers and also to have higher overall costs.

Changes are also being made to how an Exchange account handles mail. Local Exchange accounts will have a constant connection to Microsoft's servers in the future. And locally, also for example at the servers of MijnHostingPartner.nl, there will be less hosting on this. Messages that come in and are sent out will all be forwarded to the servers for Exchange from Microsoft. No more on local servers.

Privacy concerns

Both core issues from these updates from Microsoft will ensure that less or even no data will run on local servers. Getting rid of licenses that can be installed locally will mean that MijnHostingPartner.nl will also no longer be able to exercise direct control over this as we can now with the 2019 license. These licenses that allow us to install this locally, will end off life in 2025 as it looks now. After that, these accounts will have to be transferred to the newer Exchange servers at Microsoft.

This has already happened with Google Gmail accounts, as soon as you add a Google Gmail account in a Microsoft Outlook instance. Then the data, including your individual emails, will be transferred to the Microsoft servers.Users will also have less control than ever over this, there will no longer be a choice to host on local devices and servers. However, all this data will also be redirected to external servers owned by Microsoft. With all the privacy implications that this entails.

To read the entire article we used to inspire this article, we strongly recommend reading the article on Smartermail . Smartermail is the local email server that MijnHostingPartner.nl uses for the email that we deliver. And are therefore closely related to this.