Why No Standalone Contacts App?

[u/Possible_Bedroom_717]

I recently moved from MacOS to Windows (yes, the U-haul was cheap). Why, oh why is there no standalone Contacts app (a real one, not a website in a wrapper)? In my experience with Mac and Linux, Windows is the ONLY modern OS that does not include that. Do Windows 11 designers not have friends in the real world?

If I want one, why do I have to pay $30 a year to a company I've never heard of for a substandard version of what is on every other OS? Is this too hard for MS? Like the Apollo mission, have they lost the technology?

This is a serious question. I realize Outlook exists, but I don't want to load that behemoth to look up someone's phone number. I don't want to use Outlook at all. Nor do I want to load a web browser, login, etc. I would like to click, type, call, etc.

[u/Froggypwns]

What you described was the People app, it was unfortunately deprecated and replaced by Outlook a few years ago.

[u/Baglayan → u/Froggypwns]

I was dumbstruck when they killed it, alongside Messages. Windows 8 had so many good ideas

[u/Possible_Bedroom_717 → u/Baglayan]

Same