--- description: Microsoft's Halloween gift to Mac users? A surprise new version of Outlook for Mac, revealed in a company blog post Friday title: Microsoft Just Released a Surprise New Version of Outlook for Mac image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f0be8a44ef2b706/698763c2cd1bbaed3e6f2f18/01-mail-all-retina.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Microsoft to Mac Users: Happy Halloween, Here's a New Outlook for Mac  by [Alex Fitzpatrick](/author/alex-fitzpatrick/)  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 31, 2014 4:32 PM CUT  Office for Mac Office for MacMicrosoft  by [Alex Fitzpatrick](/author/alex-fitzpatrick/)  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 31, 2014 4:32 PM CUT Microsoft’s Halloween gift to Mac users? A surprise new version of Outlook for Mac, which was revealed in a company [blog post](http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/31/new-outlook-mac-available-office-365-customers/ "undefined") on Friday. The new Outlook for Mac is available only to Office 365 subscribers and promises faster performance, revamped interface and push support for the Office 365 cloud. Before you download it, though, Microsoft recommends you first get rid of Outlook for Mac 2011 if you still have that older version installed. In the same blog post, Microsoft also promised a full refresh for Office for Mac (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote) by the second half of next year, following a public beta. The new Outlook for Mac comes as an increasingly diverse array of email solutions appear on the market: Just last week, Google announced [Inbox](http://time.com/3545587/google-inbox-review/ "undefined"), a still-invite-only rethinking of your Gmail inbox as a to-do list, while [other similar apps](http://time.com/3546245/organizing-apps/ "undefined") like Mailbox have skyrocketed in popularity lately. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3551271/microsoft-outlook-mac/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3551271/microsoft-outlook-mac/"},"headline":"Microsoft to Mac Users: Happy Halloween, Here's a New Outlook for Mac","datePublished":"2014-10-31T16:32:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:03:34.708Z","description":"Available only to Office 365 subscribers","url":"https://time.com/3551271/microsoft-outlook-mac/","keywords":["Tech","apps"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f0be8a44ef2b706/698763c2cd1bbaed3e6f2f18/01-mail-all-retina.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Fitzpatrick","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-fitzpatrick/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f0be8a44ef2b706/698763c2cd1bbaed3e6f2f18/01-mail-all-retina.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"01-Mail-All-Retina","caption":"Office for Mac","creditText":"Microsoft","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3551271/microsoft-outlook-mac/","name":"Microsoft to Mac Users: Happy Halloween, Here's a New Outlook for Mac"}}]}] ```