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Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support by drannex on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @01:49PM (#45983408)
> it's using EWS (Exchange Web Services) which is being removed in October 2026 for Office36

This is Microsoft we're talking about here, so if its slated for removal in Oct '26, it will be put into LTS, and finally 'retired' (but operational) _starting_ around 2031.

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Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support by stackskipton on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @02:05PM (#45983660)
Microsoft swears it's happening: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/retirement...

Take the blog article for what you will. I have noticed in Office365, they tend to be less backward compatible than you would expect from Microsoft.

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Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support by godelski on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @02:26PM (#45983888) 

  > Microsoft swears it's happening
And when has that ever meant it comes without delay?
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Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support by stackskipton on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @02:31PM (#45983955)
Up to you if you believe Microsoft or not. I don't really care, I haven't messed with 365 outside being end user in years.
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Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support by dijit on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:20PM (#45985367)
to be fair with you, EWS has been deprecated since I think 2014, so we're already in the "pushed" window.
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Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @02:32PM (#45983977)
As an on-prem admin, I am blown away that there's 30-40 changes to 365 monthly, often including at least two or three feature deprecations. It seems like building a building on top of quicksand.
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Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support by hobofan on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @07:13PM (#45987117)
The have been keeping to the timeline when it comes to other recent Exchange Online removals (certain auth roles).
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Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support by userbinator on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @09:30PM (#45988157)
The new Microsoft is unfortunately not like the old one.
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