📫 Here's how to enable desktop notifications in Outlook Online

Desktop notifications are making Outlook Online look more and more like the fat-client Outlook application. The most significant benefits to Outlook online are:

• Faster navigation through emails in Outlook Online.
• Faster search and view search results in Outlook Online.
• You do not need to install Outlook 2016 or 2019 on your computer which prevents slowdown of your computer. Working with a Mac is also easier now.
• You can use Outlook as a PWA App install to have almost the same view than the client.
• Outlook Online has a better user interface (UI) compared to how Outlook used to look.

How to enable desktop notifications in Outlook Online?

• Press the cog at the top.
• Press: View all Outlook Settings

• Then under General - Notifications press - Send notifications to desktop.

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