It comes down to this: Microsoft is killing off its superior Mail and Calendar apps because it believes its brain is smarter than yours. One of my few stressful moments during an otherwise peaceful Hawaii vacation was when I learned Microsoft is doing away with the Mail and Calendar apps. I’ve been an unabashed fan of Mail for years because it does what I want it to do, and nothing else. Mail has a simple, clean, pure interface.
But now Microsoft plans to replace Mail and Calendar with the unified Outlook app interface, beginning next year. Current