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New Outlook App Opens Tasks in My Browser, instead of Within the App
In the New Windows app, when I click on the blue checkmark (Tasks) icon instead of opening it in the app, it opens a page in my web browser. If I wanted to use Outlook in my browser, I wouldn't be us...
JeffInIdaho Curt Kessler HelloBenTeoh SteveEd
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Just confirming what Curt Kessler said. The To Do App (Tasks) is a web app. By MS's design, it is the default app for New Outlook and Web versions' tasks.
It is also available in the classic Outlook.
I have not heard any word that a desktop version is in the makings.
Yes it's a web app, but it has an icon in the new Outlook client (and in the 'old' one). The new Outlook opens the app in a separate browser page (launching Edge if not open). The old one holds the web task app inside the Outlook client, This is dumb. All the other Outlook icons open their windows inside Outlook except To Do. And the 'old' client behaves as expected. It's the new one that has this disjointed experience.
And there is a desktop To Do app (UWP which is nice, but again, external to Outlook), but To Do launched from the new Outlook app should open inside the Outlook app. the old client does it just fine.
And there is a desktop To Do app (UWP which is nice, but again, external to Outlook), but To Do launched from the new Outlook app should open inside the Outlook app. the old client does it just fine.