JW1
Outlook.com to Office 365 migration completed?
Is it safe to say that the migration of Outlook.com to Office 365 has been mostly completed now? Being a Windows Phone/Windows 10 Mobile owner, I was one of the last to be migrated over due to "special handling" required (and they still broke my Contacts, urrgh).
Anyway, the reason I ask is the there is old email boilerplate code for .ExternalClass and .ReadMsgBody that targeted Outlook.com webmail to fix the container and silly line-height defaults.
.ReadMsgBody,
.ExternalClass {
width: 100%;
}
.ExternalClass,
.ExternalClass p,
.ExternalClass span,
.ExternalClass font,
.ExternalClass td,
.ExternalClass div {
line-height: 100%;
}
However I'm pretty confident this can be deprecated now, if not entirely removed, unless there is a still an audience yet to be migrated. I'm struggling to find any official information on the migration progress/status from Microsoft on the matter.
Kevin Mandeville and I discussed this question in Email Design Podcast #47. You can find our thoughts on it here >>
https://litmus.com/blog/email-design-podcast-47-view-online-links-image-based-emails-and-above-the-fold-buttons
Hi James ! I saw most of my (french) test accounts migrate over the week-end. But I still have one account that hasn't been migrated yet. So I'd say it's safer to wait a bit more before updating our templates and removing code that targeted the old Outlook.com. Maybe Litmus can have more details about the update rollout with their Microsoft partnership ?
Hi Remi. I agree, I'd rather be cautious and keep it in the boilerplate code for now. From what I've found, the majority of the accounts should of been migrated by Summer 2016, depending on country of origin/location that can be interpreted in a few ways, but the chatter around suggests the majority of users should be on the new platform. There was however information suggesting everything being done by mid 2017, so its not clear.
However, the fact you mention you still have an account that has not been migrated makes me think there is still a portion of the user base on the older platform and hence will maintain the code in the boilerplate for a while longer.
Would love to know if Litmus have any insider knowledge too!
Microsoft stated that the migration would not be done by the end of the summer, according to ArsTechnica.
Ah, looks like I've come across a tweet, that was posted prior to that ArsTechnica article:
https://twitter.com/Outlook/status/753253262539751424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Its looking like sometime in 2017 for all accounts to be completely migrated then!
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