Microsoft Takes on Rival Calendly with Outlook Bookings – Plus the Latest IT News Updates

This week in IT, I talk about Microsoft’s latest addition to Outlook, Outlook Bookings. And in addition to a round-up of the week’s news, I show you how to quickly @ mention a group of people in Microsoft Teams using tags.

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  • will

    Premium Member
    13 May, 2022 - 2:05 pm

    <p>Is this new? New to Thurrott? I like it.</p>

  • Russell Smith

    Premium Member
    13 May, 2022 - 2:32 pm

    <p>Newish. It’s actually from Petri.com but we’re promoting it on Thurrott. Thanks, glad you like it!</p>

    • christianwilson

      Premium Member
      13 May, 2022 - 10:51 pm

      <p>Keep them coming. These are very helpful. </p>

      • Russell Smith

        Premium Member
        14 May, 2022 - 2:43 am

        <p>Will do. Thanks Christian!</p>

  • max daru

    13 May, 2022 - 8:54 pm

    <p>I started watching these weekly roundups a few months ago. They’re great. Thanks Russell.</p>

    • Russell Smith

      Premium Member
      14 May, 2022 - 2:43 am

      <p>Thanks Max! Glad you like them.</p>

  • wright_is

    Premium Member
    14 May, 2022 - 2:23 am

    <p>We use COM add-ins for our telephone system and CRM solution, I don’t see how Microsoft will support this going forward, if the web version becomes the standard that will break a lot of functionality.</p><p><br></p><p>Surely taking the least powerful version of Outlook and making it the standard is the wrong way to go?</p><p><br></p><p>Neat tip about the tags, I hadn’t noticed them before. Are they relatively new?</p>

    • Russell Smith

      Premium Member
      14 May, 2022 - 2:51 am

      <p>Sure, I don’t think there’s any way a web app could support COM add-ins. I’m interested how Microsoft is going to position the new client when it becomes available. I guess that for many, it would provide more than enough functionality.</p><p><br></p><p>Tags have been in Teams since early 2020. Pretty useful in large environments!</p>

      • will

        Premium Member
        14 May, 2022 - 12:15 pm

        <p>This sort of feels like what they did with OneNote and the two versions with Windows 10. At the time they, Microsoft, promised all sorts of stuff with the new Win10 version and how the new app would get all the same stuff and more. It never happened, and now we are back to the OG OneNote with the new version being EOL. </p>

  • Piyer

    14 May, 2022 - 10:37 am

    <p>Thanks for your posts, Russell.</p><p>WASM can technically bridge any dlls.</p><p>in our blazer client (WASM) web app, we are able to bridge and call the printer and weigh scale directly.</p>

    • Russell Smith

      Premium Member
      15 May, 2022 - 6:10 pm

      <p>Well, that’s certainly interesting. In that case, maybe in the future Microsoft will be able to take the new client to places I didn’t think possible.</p>

  • ne0kn1ght

    Premium Member
    17 May, 2022 - 3:43 pm

    <p>Very helpful!</p>

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