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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.
What a horrible idea. I don't want a web page when the ToDo app is already installed on my laptop. For now I have switched back to the original Outlook and will stay there until forced to move.
- I completely agree with you. I think it is ridiculous. Hopefully they address this soon. You can make Outlook open the ToDo Outlook email links in the desktop app so they should be able to fix this. It's so annoying.
