![]() ![]() Until then, you’re stuck with whatever Microsoft condescends to give paying customers and their usual platitudes about ‘listening’ to customer feedback.Microsoft on Wednesday issued a Twitter post apologizing that it had "accidentally released" Windows 10 build 18947 to a "limited number of Windows Insiders," and offered them rollback instructions in an announcement.īuild 18947 turned out to be a notable release because it dispensed with the "Live Tiles" menu approach seen in the flagship Windows 10 product. Sometime after that major change, we might see proper integration with Windows 10. Microsoft expects customers to wait until Outlook for Windows becomes a set of UWP apps. Integration between Outlook for Windows and Live Tiles is unlikely. Meantime, we all buy Windows programs directly from the makers without Microsoft getting a cut. When you buy an app for your iOS or Android device, Apple or Google get a generous cut of the money you pay. Redmond is very jealous of Apple and Google with their app stores. Microsoft’s desperation to get customers using apps is simple money. That’s what ‘Office in the Windows Store’ really is. That might change with the ‘ Desktop Bridge‘ system which allows traditional Windows programs to run in the App system. The apps available are generally lame and lacking in features compared to their desktop counterparts. While the Apps might have benefits for Microsoft, they’ve not gained a lot of interest from customers. Microsoft has been pushing their apps system with little success. Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint mobile apps all do that. The same app running on a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer. Whatever you call them, Windows Apps should be able to run on all Windows devices. Don’t worry if you get confused, even Microsofties can’t keep it straight. Metro, Modern, Fluent, Universal, UWP (Universal Windows Platform), Windows app, Windows Store app and probably more we’ve forgotten. ![]() The naming of the App system changes so often, it’s hard to keep track. Because they live in this ‘sandbox’, the apps can’t interact with traditional Windows programs. ‘Apps’ run on Windows 10 but in a totally separate sub-system. ![]() There’s Traditional or Desktop Windows which runs most of the programs you’re familiar with. You can see this if you’ve installed both Office for Windows and the Office Mobile apps on the same computer. Windows 10 isn’t one operating system, it’s two systems living uncomfortably together. There’s the reverse problem too, try to email a Word document and there’s no choice for the Windows 10 Mail app. Outlook isn’t an option to send an email, only the Win10 Mail app. For example, if you try to Share a photo from the Photos app. It’s not just Live Tiles, there are other parts of Windows 10 that can’t ‘see’ Outlook. Once by Outlook and again by the Windows apps. It’s wasteful because you have the same data being downloaded and save twice. Link to the same cloud provider that Outlook uses. Open up the Calendar, Contacts or Mail app and ‘Add account’. Put simply, get Windows to do the same job as Outlook. There’s a workaround, if you use a cloud hosted service like Office 365 mail hosting, Exchange Server,, Gmail etc. Does it directly link to Outlook for Windows? … don’t be silly. The lack of integration goes beyond Live Tiles, Windows 10 is getting ‘People’ a newer way to display contacts within Windows. You can’t connect your Outlook appointments, calendar or mail to the appropriate Live Tiles. Windows 10 Creators for Microsoft Office users has a chapter devoted to customizing the Start Menu to make it work for you, not Microsoft marketing. The Start Menu also acts as an advertising billboard for Microsoft products. Live Tiles are those animated blocks on the Start Menu which, in theory, can display latest messages, contacts and calendar items. Why are there no Windows 10 Live Tiles that work with Microsoft Outlook? Why doesn’t Windows ‘play nice’ with Outlook, when they are made by the same company? ![]()
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