"New" Outlook search at the title bar - anyone else fed up?

No use to complain, discuss, whatever: see MS reaction below. They are just giving the countless complaints the biggest finger around.

From https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/39046513-search-at-the-top-option

Suggestion denied.

Outlook reacted  ·  3 juli 2020

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback through UserVoice, Coming Soon, in product feedback, and on related blog posts.

 

We investigated adding an option to support search in the old location. Unfortunately, at this time we cannot support making the search box location configurable. Future Microsoft Search updates are incompatible with the old location. There is also significant risk in maintaining the old search component due to increased complexity that leads to a higher rate of bugs. As one of the most used controls in Outlook making sure that we provide a stable and reliable search experience is one of our top priorities.

 

While it won’t address the feedback of having the search box in a new location, we do have fixes coming soon to address specific feedback about the new control. The first fix to arrive will be adding back the right click Copy\Paste menu. After that we have a fix coming to make changing scope easier by adding a more prominent scope changing control. You can read more details about these fixes in our blog post.

While our search success data is showing that the majority of users are having more success with the new search experience, we understand that moving the search box is a big change that can be disruptive. From the product team, thank you for your patience as we continue to learn how to make Outlook changes easier going forward and continue to work on improving the search experience.

That is absolute and utter bullsh*t - IF they are actually capturing Search Success Data, it could not POSSIBLY show a majority of users experiencing greater success with the new Search Experience.  It is impossible!  They crippled the functionality that used to be available.  They are just too lazy to: support making the search box location configurable.

Programmatically, they are screwing us over because: Future Microsoft Search updates are incompatible with the old location.  

Thank you Microsloth

I would LOVE to furnish Negative Feedback in the hopes Microsoft Programmers fix their ridiculous Error in removing Search Folders functionality!

However, the only options currently available in Help are:

Help             Contact Support           Suggest a Feature                 Show Training

No ability whatsoever to Send Feedback.  Did they get so tired of receiving feedback from irritated users, they simply Disabled that Function too????

No use to complain, discuss, whatever: see MS reaction below. They are just giving the countless complaints the biggest finger around.

From https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/39046513-search-at-the-top-option

Suggestion denied.

Outlook reacted  ·  3 juli 2020

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback through UserVoice, Coming Soon, in product feedback, and on related blog posts.

 

We investigated adding an option to support search in the old location. Unfortunately, at this time we cannot support making the search box location configurable. Future Microsoft Search updates are incompatible with the old location. There is also significant risk in maintaining the old search component due to increased complexity that leads to a higher rate of bugs. As one of the most used controls in Outlook making sure that we provide a stable and reliable search experience is one of our top priorities.

 

While it won’t address the feedback of having the search box in a new location, we do have fixes coming soon to address specific feedback about the new control. The first fix to arrive will be adding back the right click Copy\Paste menu. After that we have a fix coming to make changing scope easier by adding a more prominent scope changing control. You can read more details about these fixes in our blog post.

While our search success data is showing that the majority of users are having more success with the new search experience, we understand that moving the search box is a big change that can be disruptive. From the product team, thank you for your patience as we continue to learn how to make Outlook changes easier going forward and continue to work on improving the search experience.

This change is utterly unusable on the Surface Go under the following conditions:

• A number of Quick Actions are configured (which take up real estate in the title bar)
• Outlook is dragged to one half of the screen and any other app is on the other half

The impact is: essentially no way to use the Search Bar, and there is no place to click or tap to move the window.

What in the world were they thinking?  It's as though there is no consideration to UI design anymore in these apps.

"I know!  I have a large hi-res monitor.  I'll move the search bar to the title bar.  I'll love it there and SO WILL EVERYONE ELSE."

Pathetic.

Big businesses equals big government, same uncompromising disrespectful individual results.  One size fits all for them, leaving shoddy quality, services, and support for everyone else.