Edi Wang

Microsoft MVP for Azure

Office

How to Stop Automatically Switching to New Outlook

Microsoft introduced the new Outlook last year. Many users, including myself, are not fond of the new Outlook. In early 2025, I discovered that Microsoft plans to automatically install the new Outlook on new Windows 11 machines. Additionally, users will be forced to switch to the new Outlook after opening the classic Outlook app a few times. What’s even more frustrating is that even if you uninstall the new Outlook app, it will reappear after some time. In this blog post, I’ll share a method to disable this automatic upgrade behavior.
Microsoft Office

Run Office 97 on iPad with RDS on Microsoft Azure

Apple has been trying to make the iPad as a computer, but it's never as good as a real PC. If you can run PC software on an iPad, such as a full version of Office, that would be an ideal way. The first software I used when I was a kid was Microsoft Word in Office 97, which was the first version to introduce an Office Assistant (Clippy). In honor of Clippy that died at the age of seven, I decided …
Azure Office