After researching how to get it back to how it looked, which was much more in my taste, much easier to navigate, had what I needed and nothing more, - I now see I can't get it back after it was updated. I think i'm gonna completely disgard of this email, I liked how it looked on PC, it was dark, fast, easy to find things, now it's very complicated with a lot of options and tools i have no use for, and it's bright, with small buttons everywhere. The browser version is alright, so that is what I will be using. I will uninstall outlook completely as a program from my PC, as I do not wish to have this update, and it's more trouble and much more confusing and irritating, than helping and good. It will complicate work and how easy it was before, but that's just how it is, when updates are being forced upon people. It's a typical thing of big coperations to do this, so it dosen't surprise me, that some people who think they know it all, make something new, to shove down the users throat, instead of being able to choose ourselves.

Dear Microsoft, You had a rather good product with the old mail-app. This new Outlook thing appears broken from the start, it simply isn't good enough. Please, please roll that back. The best regards, // Jens

ur right it"s a disaster and it makes me angry. even the icon is a failure. the guy who made this must been on something

I tried the toggle button for the preview and switched back as fast as I could. The New Outlook is garbage . I remember when I was using Pegasus Mail in the 1990s, early 2000s and at the time it was much more feature rich than the early versions of Outlook. Then Microsoft copied them, integrated all of the Pegasus Mail features into Outlook, resulting in a massive increase in adoption of Outlook. Today Microsoft is going backwards , stripping out most the useful granular features so they can force everyone into cloud based advertising and subscription fees. I will use Pegasus Mail again before I switch over to cloud based New Outlook trash. Corporate power users will start ditching New Outlook for lack of features. Not being able to have all these missing email features slows office productivity.

Agreed - I'm constantly amazed how Microsoft thinks 'upgrade' means better when you eliminate some of the most useful and basic tools. IE: Try printing a copy of a draft email. Or...try to color code your calendared event... Good luck!!! Horrible - Horrible - effort!

I swear I am having the same problem re the new outlook: I have always hated outlook and was pleasantly surprised when win 10 came up with the very simple very light no hassle mail app. But now even after all the negative feedback given by a huge majority of us users, they are still trying to force the new outlook on to us. PLEASE JUST DITCH THE THING ALREADY! Why are you people so fond of over complicating our lives? Aren't our lives complicated enough? Stop making things impractical and WHY THE SURVEY AND FEEDBACK IF YOU WONT LISTEN TO US? Just let us keep the mail app PLEASE!!!!!! Right now when i was trying to open my mail app the damned outlook box kept trying to start up as a separate box and it wouldn't even load and wouldnt let my mail app load either. After 30 minutes I have finally managed to open the mail app. WTH people? We are the users, we should have the right to choose what suits us. KEEP YOUR OUTLOOK TO YOURSELF PLEASE. and leave us the heck alone. I am so so so peed off right now because HALF AN HOUR wasted on trying to open my mail with your outlook obstructing the whole process...as if microsoft edge wasn't enough: every time i accidentally turn on edge, the whole computer freezes. now outlook is freezing everything.

The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible

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After researching how to get it back to how it looked, which was much more in my taste, much easier to navigate, had what I needed and nothing more, - I now see I can't get it back after it was updated.
I think i'm gonna completely disgard of this email, I liked how it looked on PC, it was dark, fast, easy to find things, now it's very complicated with a lot of options and tools i have no use for, and it's bright, with small buttons everywhere.

The browser version is alright, so that is what I will be using. I will uninstall outlook completely as a program from my PC, as I do not wish to have this update, and it's more trouble and much more confusing and irritating, than helping and good. It will complicate work and how easy it was before, but that's just how it is, when updates are being forced upon people.

It's a typical thing of big coperations to do this, so it dosen't surprise me, that some people who think they know it all, make something new, to shove down the users throat, instead of being able to choose ourselves.

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2023-10-26T08:27:16+00:00

Dear Microsoft,

You had a rather good product with the old mail-app. This new Outlook thing appears broken from the start, it simply isn't good enough. Please, please roll that back.

The best regards,

// Jens
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2023-10-25T01:26:34+00:00

ur right it"s a disaster and it makes me angry. even the icon is a failure. the guy who made this must been on something
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2023-10-22T18:32:09+00:00

I tried the toggle button for the preview and switched back as fast as I could. The New Outlook is garbage. I remember when I was using Pegasus Mail in the 1990s, early 2000s and at the time it was much more feature rich than the early versions of Outlook. Then Microsoft copied them, integrated all of the Pegasus Mail features into Outlook, resulting in a massive increase in adoption of Outlook. Today Microsoft is going backwards, stripping out most the useful granular features so they can force everyone into cloud based advertising and subscription fees. I will use Pegasus Mail again before I switch over to cloud based New Outlook trash. Corporate power users will start ditching New Outlook for lack of features. Not being able to have all these missing email features slows office productivity.
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2023-10-19T23:10:01+00:00

Agreed - I'm constantly amazed how Microsoft thinks 'upgrade' means better when you eliminate some of the most useful and basic tools. IE: Try printing a copy of a draft email. Or...try to color code your calendared event... Good luck!!!

Horrible - Horrible - effort!
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2023-10-09T20:38:48+00:00

I swear I am having the same problem re the new outlook: I have always hated outlook and was pleasantly surprised when win 10 came up with the very simple very light no hassle mail app. But now even after all the negative feedback given by a huge majority of us users, they are still trying to force the new outlook on to us. PLEASE JUST DITCH THE THING ALREADY! Why are you people so fond of over complicating our lives? Aren't our lives complicated enough? Stop making things impractical and WHY THE SURVEY AND FEEDBACK IF YOU WONT LISTEN TO US?

Just let us keep the mail app PLEASE!!!!!! Right now when i was trying to open my mail app the damned outlook box kept trying to start up as a separate box and it wouldn't even load and wouldnt let my mail app load either. After 30 minutes I have finally managed to open the mail app. WTH people? We are the users, we should have the right to choose what suits us. KEEP YOUR OUTLOOK TO YOURSELF PLEASE. and leave us the heck alone. I am so so so peed off right now because HALF AN HOUR wasted on trying to open my mail with your outlook obstructing the whole process...as if microsoft edge wasn't enough: every time i accidentally turn on edge, the whole computer freezes. now outlook is freezing everything.
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