Not all users use outlook or want to so why are you forcing it? Some of us just want to look at future days like we used to.
Calendar is no longer available on Taskbar
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For those of us that have been using Microsoft Windows professionally for years, there has been a handy calendar in the right corner of the taskbar (Date & Time) that was quickly and easily accessible to view a calendar and move forward and backwards as needed. You don't realize how much you use something until it is taken away. I use this multiple times every day and now it's gone and basically Microsoft has FORCED INEFFICIENCY into my day, which I do NOT need! It is horribly inefficient to click into Outlook and find the calendar to find the date in question when I could just click on the lower right hand corner of ANY SCREEN - meaning I need this accessible on ALL SCREENS, not just the main screen. Now I can't get at it from the main screen either. Come on Windows team.... did you do user research with any of your corporate users? This is NOT an option that should have been removed!!! PLEASE BRING IT BACK ASAP!
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Anonymous
2025-01-24T15:47:06+00:00 -
Anonymous
2025-02-06T01:18:35+00:00 You are completely correct! Such a stupid move to remove the calendar!!!
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Anonymous
2025-01-05T02:36:56+00:00 I use the POP3 version of Outlook and am totally dissatisfied with removing the CALENDAR (not just the date and time) from the taskbar in the lower right corner.
You're listening to you MS 365 developers and marketing people, NOT to your customers.
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Anonymous
2025-05-12T13:25:13+00:00 Ditto for me. I used the simple calendar multiple time every day. One way I used it was during screen sharing in a teams without letting everyone (vendors etc) see my actual Outlook calendar, I would share the simple calendar for high-level planning. Now I'm going to put a paper calendar on my office wall. Thanks Microsoft ... not!
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Anonymous
2025-01-24T16:58:16+00:00 The simple answer is that not all of us are sheep, willing to be lead to where big tech wants us to go. Personally, I prefer owning my own data and apps whenever possible rather than trusting their ability to a cloud and subscription services. I can have all the email I can store on my drives, and it will be there when the net goes down and/or subscription prices rise to near extortion levels.
I understand the pros and cons and accept responsibility for my decisions. It's called informed choice.
As for the past, I frequently need to refer back to the near and distant past for how I spent a period of time or what particular meeting I attended. I the really old days, not all people discard their 'day planners' when full, but kept them as useful if not valuable records.
My philosophy is 'to each his own' and very much against others forcing their decisions on me.