
It was a magic moment when I saw the same folder structure, and the upgrade even preserved my signatures.

In the event I need not have worried, the upgrade delivered my new Outlook 2013 inbox complete with all my old emails. Perhaps it was a corollary of Murphy's Law, if you make a backup, then nothing ever goes wrong! I was so concerned that I took the unusual step, for me, of making an extra copy of my old outlook 2010 files. pst database, leading to compatibility problems, and tricky techniques to import and export the contacts. Furthermore, over the years my antennae have picked up factoids such as changes in the b-Tree structure of the. The outlook.pst file holds all my crucial email correspondence, it would be desperate to lose all that invaluable information. My specific worry was losing Outlook data. Yet my nagging concern was that upgrading to Office 2013 would require me to learn new techniques.Ĭirca Windows 95 Microsoft made a big play of backward compatibility but ever since there has been a steady uncoupling of previous features, stuff that worked in XP is not available in Vista, and famously, the Start Button is not available in Windows 8.0 I have installed every edition of Microsoft Word from Word 2 to Word 2010, all without reading any instructions other than the on-screen prompts. Overcoming Guy's Office 2013 Install Fears

In short, all clients older than Outlook 2013 SP1 with the latest fixes are no longer able to connect to Exchange Online. It was already announced on the Microsoft blogpost New minimum Outlook for Windows version requirements for Microsoft 365, Microsoft will stop support for older Outlook clients on Novem(which is 24 days from the time of writing!).
