Unified Inbox in Outlook 2020?

Anonymous
2020-09-07T20:00:01+00:00

I have been waiting 10 years for a unified inbox in outlook on windows.  I use outlook 5 hours a day with 10+ mailboxes (I am a consultant for several companies)

So about 5 years ago, I switched to mac, just because Apple outlook has unified inbox, sent mail etc.

Now My mac is getting too slow and too full (they come with small SSDs and no upgrade options). I don't want another mac, I want to buy a windows pc, but cant, as outlook on windows has no unified box.

In 10 years of office upgrades and new versions, they have not implemented a single useful new feature (for me as an IT professional anyway).  I would go so far as to say I would not notice the difference in functionality between office 2010 and the currently office 365.  In 10 years they could have added the one critical missing feature.  I can only assume that Microsoft do not add this feature to force people with many active mailboxes to buy Macs to run microsoft office.  Perhaps Apple pay the Microsoft Office team in brown envelopes to keep the windows version of outlook crippled?

I have tried all the unified inbox hacks.  None work properly.

If I was a microsoft developer, I would create an outlook plugin which implemented unified inbox and sent mail box and make a fortune.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-12-20T22:58:24+00:00

    I've been using a very similar macro, just without the SendKeys line and it suddenly stopped working properly after cumulative update 20H2 for Win 10 (KB5008212) was applied here. Now it still performs the search when I use the macro but the results only show messages received up to when the update happened.

    I can still see the new e-mails on each individual mailbox so Outlook is fetching them, but not adding those messages to the search results. Was something changed on how search works / a new setting I failed to find so far or did something break?

    Just chiming in here to say that my VBA searches no longer work after the recent update, as well. Please fix search so we can use this powerful tool fully!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-12-20T22:40:42+00:00

    I've been using a very similar macro, just without the SendKeys line and it suddenly stopped working properly after cumulative update 20H2 for Win 10 (KB5008212) was applied here. Now it still performs the search when I use the macro but the results only show messages received up to when the update happened.

    I can still see the new e-mails on each individual mailbox so Outlook is fetching them, but not adding those messages to the search results. Was something changed on how search works / a new setting I failed to find so far or did something break?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-13T20:27:29+00:00

    It still blows my mind that Outlook on Windows dose not have a unified inbox option. Even crazier that the Mac version has had it for quite some time. I went with eM client for my mail app. It has a unified inbox, is much easier to use, much better UI etc. And the free version only has one real limitation which is 2 accounts max. But I use Gmail and Outlook so that's all I need. Other than that it's great, no ads or anything. And of course it has a unified inbox.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-07-01T19:54:07+00:00

    Yes, you are so right. I've now got eM Client, and it works superbly in all departments.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-03T15:18:15+00:00

    Refusal by Microsoft to implement these basic features, that are only available on non-Microsoft platforms - Both supporting multiple Teams accounts, and Unified view of Outlook for windows - Is Microsoft planning to retire windows and get out the desktop business? Another example - PowerPoint, VSCode - they are a lot better on Mac than on windows. Several basic features are not available on windows but are provided on Mac, Linux and IOS?

    Outlook Rooms availability is the same case... I am seriously concerned.

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