What's the difference between Office365 Planner task and Tasks in Office365 and how to access Tasks with MS Graph

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enter image description hereI can tell that "Tasks" has integration with Outlook Win32 desktop program, Windows 10 UWP Mail/Calendar apps as well as this weird Wunderlist make over To-Do UWP app (which is strangely not integrated with Windows 10 UWP Mail/Calendar apps, just as how tasks is integrated with the Outlook Win32 desktop prorgam). I can see that there is a Microsoft Graph documentation for accessing Planner in Office365, but I cannot see the same documentation about "Tasks":

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/api-reference/v1.0/resources/planner_overview

How can I access/create/update/delete tasks in "Tasks", through Microsoft Graph?

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The term "task" is used by a number of applications. They are not a standalone entity, meaning a Planner Task has no relation to an Outlook Task beyond sharing a name.

  • Microsoft Planner is a project and task management tool for teams/groups. It is accessible via the Planner app as well as Microsoft Graph through the /planner endpoint.

  • Outlook Tasks are task items stored in Outlook/Exchange. These are accessible via any Outlook for Windows, Mac and Web. A Preview/Beta API is available in Microsoft Graph via the /outlook/tasks endpoint. While the Graph version is still in Beta, the older Outlook REST API for Tasks is a suitable alternative.

  • Microsoft To-Do is a new app for interacting with Outlook tasks. It is as an purpose-built Task management alternative to the full Outlook client. It uses the same Microsoft Graph endpoints as it's API.