CrossOver 16.2 Released, Supports Microsoft Outlook 2013 On Linux

[starshipeleven]

The latest version of of Microsoft Outlook is 2016.

That is obvious, as is also obvious that it is more or less the same as Outlook 2013, or even 2010.

Still a stupid bloatware application whose only reason to exist is decent Exchange support (because no duh, it's their own stuff).

[uid313]

That is obvious, as is also obvious that it is more or less the same as Outlook 2013, or even 2010.

Still a stupid bloatware application whose only reason to exist is decent Exchange support (because no duh, it's their own stuff).

It is really useful for companies and organizations. You have email, appointments, schedules, tasks, shared calendar that allows you to book meetings at times that does not collide with other peoples schedules and calendar events, in rooms that are not occupied.
Integration with Skype for Business, and Active Directory.

For home use its just bloat, but for business users its a killer app.

[starshipeleven]

It is really useful for companies and organizations. You have email, appointments, schedules, tasks, shared calendar that allows you to book meetings at times that does not collide with other peoples schedules and calendar events, in rooms that are not occupied.
Integration with Skype for Business, and Active Directory.

For home use its just bloat, but for business users its a killer app.

It's still a stupid bloatware application for what it does and I work in IT so I kinda know it from like decades, the fact that it supports Exchange (which is the MS-specific protocol that allows the "email, appointments, schedules, tasks, shared calendar" stuff you said), integrates with other bullshit applications like Skype or supports AD does not change this basic fact.
As some guy said above, it's far better to just use the Outlook.com website interface (as it does offer the same functionality but is far easier to use and has 0 maintenance required) and getting rid of that bullshit application alltogether.

Also, for the sake of showing you that you can do without that too even in businness, note that the same stuff is offered by Google with non-platform-specific interfaces, and there are large amounts of CalDAV-aware applications (servers and clients) that also deal with shared calendars using a standard protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV