How to add the 'All Accounts Inbox' in Outlook for Windows 11

As anyone can clearly see, MSoft are not about customers/Users - they are all about themselves. Many people seem to be asking why and how can MSoft be this way, and I can answer with one word = Twitter.

Like him and his changes or not, Musk removed 70+% of the staff employed by Twitter/X and there was no catastrophic failure - in fact during the election the X service ran brilliantly. There are too many staff in MSoft that are not dealing with Customer/User issues - and they dont care.

MSoft is the same as Twitter was - massively bloated staff numbers who dont do anything regarding Customers/Users issues. The whole organisation is full of 'corporate swimmers' who only care about one thing - their own careers and keeping their job. When corporate focus becomes all about narratives and profits and internal issues, this will consume an organisation. Then changes are made to the products and services that are not focussed on Customers/Users, and this is one of those changes.

MSoft only cares about Azure and all the services and products that comes with that (mainly corporates). Us lowly customers with basic Outlook needs are the absolute last thing they care about. Hopefully a stand alone alternative solution (better than Thundercloud) will play out over the next year or so - one that MSoft will support.

Clearly everyone is wasting their breath here, Microsoft has not for some unfathomable reason even seen fit to comment on the tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of requests for this feature for many years now. Just find software that 1. works in the way EVERYBODY clearly wants, and 2. is developed by a company that actually wants you to use it.

As has been said many times, nearly every other mail client has this feature so pick one and save yourself the stress of trying to get microsoft to respond.

I personally have been using EM client for around 10 years. Every time I buy a new machine I check to see if Microsoft have resolved this issue (because it would be nice to have a client that integrates natively) before installing a third party client but they never do, so I stick with EM client. I think it is similar to thunderbird, but as I say pick any, they pretty much all offer a combined inbox.

Will.

The thing that aggravates me the most is that "New Outlook" is supposed to be unified across all platforms. They promised the same experience everywhere. That just isn't the case.

New Outlook for Mac does have a unified inbox, and it also has the ability to hide past events in the My Day view. Which is the Calendar / Task panel on the right side in the Windows version. In the Windows version, you cannot hide past events in that view. So, when I have a day full of meetings, I must scroll to see what's next, or just look at the meetings I already had.

Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android also have unified inboxes. It is only Windows that doesn't... That's not even mentioning the Outlook Enterprise Progressive Web App (PWA) is very different than the Outlook.com Web App (OWA). Different functions, different settings. There is no uniformity in Outlook. They must have 6 different siloed development teams working on each of these.

"IMAP & Exchange accounts will always have their own <Inbox> folders and that cannot be changed."

If Outlook for Android and IOS, and Windows Mail can do it, why can't Outlook for Windows be made to do it?

In the year 2023 there is no justification for this.

From within Outlook, if I type unified mailbox or something similar into the help tool, it brings up a help topic that shows exactly how to do this. But it doesn't work, and the instructions aren't even for the version of Outlook I am using. I am betting that the help tool went through 47 alpha and beta testers before it was released, and nobody caught it. This reflects poorly on Microsoft.

People have been complaining about this issue for a long time. Third parties have made it work. Microsoft has made it work for other operating systems and other versions of Outlook. I am betting that Outlook went through 47 review sessions before it was released, and nobody caught it. This reflects poorly on Microsoft.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but I received an invitation from Microsoft yesterday to fill out a survey on my experiences so far. The invitation contained typographical and formatting errors. At a company the size of Microsoft, I am betting that this email went through 47 levels of approval before it was sent out, and nobody caught it. This reflects poorly on Microsoft.

When I work in Excel or SQL Server or any other Microsoft product at this point, I can't help but wonder if the same level of quality control has been applied to all of the functions going on behind the scenes. Did Excel go through the same QC teams that Outlook did? Can I just blindly trust that the mathematical functions are working correctly? Do the 'help' tools actually correlate to the version of Excel that I am using?

Am I off base here? Am I expecting too much?