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The responses from those who monitor Outlook is corporate cute. And expected.
But the new Outlook is so Very Terrible, that those of US who loved and have been a part of Hotmail since it's inception , might be lead to believe that the R&D dept. or hired developer Never used it in their lifetime? ??
This new Outlook is a lazy, pathetic designers attempt to.......do nothing!!
What did you make better??
NOTHING!
What did you screw up??
Why explain it,..WE all know the new Outlook is a " Microsoft is done with your stupid account....." phase out.
Which in actuality is a shame from a business perspective.
Hotmail, may not be Facebook popular?
But, there ARE many longterm users!!!!!!
Microsoft, you are forcing Your Clientele to depart and sever ties with you.
I left the iPhone world long ago for Samsung / Android.
Why???
Microsoft is creating the Same Problem.
IF, the business is really about money????
And Microsoft " thinks " it needs to change??
Why not do the smart thing.........
Ask your client base what WE like, and what WE think you do well. Then work from there.
But this new Outlook??? Sorry but, IT SUCKS!
Configuring preferences and options in Outlook.com
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Chiming in to agree. User of 12+ years, probably going to make my gmail account my main email soon. Just stumbled upon this thread when searching to see if anyone else hates the new look, skype integration, etc. Just plain bad.
DUMP THE WEB-BASED SERVER GARBAGE AND LET ME TYPE A DAMN LETTER THEN SEND IT. WE ONLY NEED CONNECTIVITY FOR THE ACTUAL SENDING OF THE EMAIL NOT TYPING EVERY STUPID CHARACTER. -HARDWARE BASED NOW PLEASE-
Totally agree, is so bloody painful I will type in Wordpad or Notepad and dump it in after (easiest way), try typing a new email in a GMX.com email, seems to be much faster
Hey, the look and the functions of all the fluff are one thing I can't even properly type a damn email half the time because of the constant problems with it being web mail not hardware based. I just spent about 20 minutes just trying to forward one email and write a one sentence response to the same email. This web based garbage is not a step forward. If I need to backup my stupid emails let me do it don't slow down the whole program so I can't even type a letter properly without getting completely irate.
DUMP THE WEB-BASED SERVER GARBAGE AND LET ME TYPE A DAMN LETTER THEN SEND IT. WE ONLY NEED CONNECTIVITY FOR THE ACTUAL SENDING OF THE EMAIL NOT TYPING EVERY STUPID CHARACTER. -HARDWARE BASED NOW PLEASE-
Hey... I agree with all you state.
Even if Microsoft asked for a small charge, many extremely long term users would pay it.
I detest yahoo, I detest gmail (not able to construct and use folders), hate the fact on BOTH that the provider determines where your email goes, whereas apart from scam/ junk in Hotmail it all comes into the Inbox.
Watching Microsoft over years (original 3.14 user), they do this ALL the time.
History: Windows 95 - OK
Windows 98 - Useless
Windows 98 Second Edition - Great
Windows 2000 / Millennium - USELESS
Windows XP - Great
Windows Blista - USELESS
Windows 7 - Great
Windows 8 - USELESS
Windows 10 - Great
hmmmmm..... Going by their history expect their next wave of I.T nerds to F something up
Next Windows version.....? possibly, but look at this USELESS Outlook "version"... (ha ha ha...) as a prequel for their next wave of crap
Suggestion...... Go and set up a free email account with gmx.com
The format and navigation is AWESOME
Folders can be easily constructed, view and used
Easy to set forwarding and similar account settings
Contact list is easy to edit and view
Whoever the brainiacs are behind gmx mail are thinking logically how and where a human would expect and organise information, instead of the useless nerds at Microsoft who are designing crap for the 5% of people who who's brains operate in geek mode only
Cheers
Ted
New Zealand
I wholeheartedly agree that Outlook is completely useless.
The search 'function' provides no effective functionality. I search for a particular (unusual) name and the search function lists every email in my 'focussed' and 'other' folders: the search function returns more options than the original list!
There is no way to sort emails unless I set up new folders, which by the sound of other complaints will only result in me losing data the next time Microsoft decides to 'upgrade' their software, so I'm not prepared to do that.
I don't know why I'm wasting time posting this, because Microsoft won't listen anyway.