Microsoft has just announced to great fanfare that its famous Outlook mail client, until now integrated into its package Office, it can already be installed completely free of charge on any Mac. So if you want to use it, you no longer need to have a Microsoft subscription for it.
But as my father used to say: "nobody pays four pesetas." As a general rule, you have to flee from all that free software, which does not have any type of financial compensation, or advertising or anything that can be seen with the naked eye. It is your responsibility to install it, and that all your emails are "seen" by Microsoft...
Microsoft has announced today on its website that from now on you can install yourself Microsoft Outlook totally free on your Mac, and thus have one of the most popular email clients in the world.
Until now, Outlook was part of Microsoft's Office suite, along with Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive. In order to use it, you must have a purchase license or a paid account Microsoft 365.
But from now on, you no longer need those privileges to install Microsoft Outlook on your Mac, and you can do it completely free of charge. A priori this is great news, since Outlook is one of the most powerful email clients out there.
Supports a large number of email providers including Outlook.com, Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo Mail etc. with a unified inbox and powerful universal search. And also its latest version already runs natively in Apple Silicons.
The only drawback that I see, thinking badly, is that now Microsoft gives you a tool so that you can see all your emails. Why not also give away Word or Excel? Hmm, weird, weird. Yes, yes, surely it meets all the necessary requirements in terms of privacy, but as I said at the beginning, "nobody pays four pesetas"...
Well, on the official page it continues to cost €149.