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Iron Contributor

Feb 12, 2020

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Is Planner discontinued by Microsoft?

There is zero development in Planner's roadmap. Microsoft Project is promoted heavily, and is essentially a Planner with a Gantt chart. So, do I need to bother about Planner or should I switch to Pro...

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Brian-Smith
Feb 12, 2020
Hi Kiril, Planner is certainly not discontinued and we continue to invest in both Planner and Project. In Planner currently quite a lot of the effort is preparing for some features coming along soon - and hopefully you should be seeing more on the Roadmap - as well as new changes that probably don't justify a full Roadmap entry, like the recent addition of the Priority field and the very recently added Priority charts.

As Project for the web gets new features it will certainly be a lot more than Planner with a Gantt chart - and it is already well beyond that in terms of the scheduling capabilities and depth of plan that it can support compared to Planner.

Best regards,

Brian

Kiril

Iron Contributor

Feb 13, 2020

Hi Brian-Smith, thank you for that. What is the best way to follow the development of tools like Planner? I did not find anything other than the road map.

The article about Tasks integration into Teams looks very promising: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/tasks-in-microsoft-365-our-vision-for-a-unified-experience/bc-p/1163728. Do you happen to know when it's going to be deployed?

Brian-Smith

Former Employee

Feb 13, 2020

Hi Kiril - the team are working to supplement the Microsoft 365 Roadmap information with a new 'What's New' page at some point - similar to the one for Project . They also post to the Planner blog, and should have a couple of posts coming along soon - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-blog/bg-p/PlannerBlog.

For the new Teams functionality I had the pleasure to show that off at Ignite and it does look pretty cool - expect that to land in the first half of this year.

Best regards,

Brian