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

dali272

Copper Contributor

May 05, 2021

Brian-Smith please list all planner features delivered in 2021. I am really interested in that extensive list 🙂

Brian-Smith

Former Employee

May 05, 2021

So far in 2021? Many additions to the Task in Teams capabilities that are driven by Planner. File recommendations for attachments (coming soon), Recommended Plans, additional labels, the message center sync capabilities added to our Government cloud, the new Task Publishing capabilities to support front line worker scenarios, smart backgrounds, move tasks from one plan to any another plan (this month), dark mode for Planner mobile, checklist progress bar... See the M365 Roadmap https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=Planner#owRoadmapMainContent and follow the blog here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-blog/bg-p/PlannerBlog for all updates to Planner.

Brian-Smith
Former Employee
May 05, 2021

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