Outlook Web App (OWA) provides web-based access to your
organization’s hosted Exchange services, including email, contacts, calendar,
and tasks. From an end-user perspective, the upgrade to the new Office 365, client
applications on PCs and phones, should go pretty seamlessly, with no email
disruptions. But those who access these services from the web are in for a
treat. This is an interface, and the differences between the current version
and that in the new Office 365 are pretty dramatic.
The previous and familiar version of OWA works well enough
and roughly resembles a scaled back version of the Outlook client application
for Windows. It has a few basic theme choices but is otherwise pretty
bare-boned from a customization standpoint.
In the new Office
365, OWA is dramatically simplified; more closely resembling Outlook 2013 and
it is actually far more customizable than the old version. If you like having
the folder list visible and want to use an old-school theme, you can do that
too. If you live in the web UI, this is both friendlier and more efficient. In
the old OWA, you used a Contacts component to interact with your contacts. But
the new version uses the People moniker, in keeping with all of Microsoft’s
modern contacts solutions in Outlook 2013, Outlook.com, Windows 8/RT, and
Windows Phone.
In fact, on the Windows Phone handsets and Nexus 7 tablet when
you sign-in, you will receive a decidedly old-school OWA interface from several
years ago. But that’s by design: The expectation is that users with these types
of devices will use rich native apps to interact with Office 365 services. And
as any Windows Phone user can tell you, the Outlook Mobile experience on that
platform is particularly good, with native Mail, Calendar, and People apps.
Latest updates on Microsoft Office 2019:
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Latest updates on Microsoft Office 2019:
https://www.inteligence.net/question/how-to-link-a-project-in-microsoft-office-2019/
