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.

I may have to do the same... finding it tiresome.

Who comes out with this updates? looks like the techs dont use it at all! Everything is bad! the contact database, the search, the calendar, the email, you name it! Why change something that already works perfect!

Totally agree with all the complaints. For me its is actually the look. It is visually soo poor I miss emails compared to how they look in Outlook 2010,. If I sit at the PC with 2010 still running on it it is so much clearer than the new version. This back to basics display of text shading/outlines and colours throws away years of visual improvment. Things Microsoft sold us improvments in each upgrade. It actually causes eye strain after prolonged use. Then as other have said, you can't access the calendar so easy. and the Dark or Light options is a joke. It really looks like a pre-release prototype, before the detail is added. What next? Will Microsoft tell us we are being forced to upgtrade to DOS! Are Microsoft taking any notice of their users wishes. I wish they would comment and at least say we hear you.

I was thinking of Postbox, but decided to go with Emclent: https://www.emclient.com Carl

I’m dubious about the benefits of the new so called “AI” ‘Copilot’. I think I could live without it if the webified non-email client is the price to pay for it. So I guess if you want Copilot then all apps have to be made with web? I think they could build a copilot enabled Outlook that’s also a native desktop application. Personally I’ll use every tool possible to keep Copilot away from my accounts and my data. The threat surface for this potentially very large. It could possibly be ruinous if it were hacked and used against a company. But I digress. I think I’ll hold on to the real Outlook until it no longer functions.

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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2024-03-05T20:06:40+00:00

I may have to do the same... finding it tiresome.
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2024-01-30T19:36:25+00:00

Who comes out with this updates? looks like the techs dont use it at all! Everything is bad! the contact database, the search, the calendar, the email, you name it! Why change something that already works perfect!
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2024-01-02T12:05:15+00:00

Totally agree with all the complaints. For me its is actually the look. It is visually soo poor I miss emails compared to how they look in Outlook 2010,. If I sit at the PC with 2010 still running on it it is so much clearer than the new version. This back to basics display of text shading/outlines and colours throws away years of visual improvment. Things Microsoft sold us improvments in each upgrade. It actually causes eye strain after prolonged use. Then as other have said, you can't access the calendar so easy. and the Dark or Light options is a joke. It really looks like a pre-release prototype, before the detail is added. What next? Will Microsoft tell us we are being forced to upgtrade to DOS! Are Microsoft taking any notice of their users wishes. I wish they would comment and at least say we hear you.
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2023-12-15T21:33:38+00:00

I was thinking of Postbox, but decided to go with Emclent:

https://www.emclient.com

Carl
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2023-12-04T20:55:09+00:00

I’m dubious about the benefits of the new so called “AI” ‘Copilot’. I think I could live without it if the webified non-email client is the price to pay for it.

So I guess if you want Copilot then all apps have to be made with web? I think they could build a copilot enabled Outlook that’s also a native desktop application.

Personally I’ll use every tool possible to keep Copilot away from my accounts and my data. The threat surface for this potentially very large. It could possibly be ruinous if it were hacked and used against a company. But I digress.

I think I’ll hold on to the real Outlook until it no longer functions.
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