Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Reading pane background image

To offer more personalization to end users, Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will now have the ability to display a background image in the reading pane whenever emails are not selected. This feature will be turned off by default for commercial customers.
A user will be able to turn on a background image by going to Settings General Appearance from Outlook.

Product Outlook
Release phase General Availability
Release date June CY2023
Platform Web
Cloud Instance Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Created 2023-04-14
Roadmap ID 126221
Roadmap Link https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=126221


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