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.

But that doesn't remove the main claim. People are, or feel, forced to use your ****. Personally iI fully agree. Drop it And, of course, I have changed to a more serious mail program. To all of you who like me are tired of this, and the new silly rules for mails on the server, no matter if you like it or not, try Thunderbird. They still offer pop3. Of course, you will need a new mail account, but there is still mailservice that offers pop3, and Microsoft Letting People Choose What They Want And What They DON'T Want.

Just got a new PC. Very angry that Microsoft has made these changes to Outlook (Especially no Task link to be found!) It's like they don't even acknowledge that the earlier version ever existed. What's worse is I'm left to figure out everything on my own. Should be a seamless transition when you are using the same operating system. That is the very antithesis of user friendly. **** people?! Dirk

Yes it was designed by an idiot; or I am the idiot. If I open a mail and read it, I have to click on Inbox to see my other mails; but then it starts at the top again, and I have to scroll all the way down. I used to be able to click on a sender and then see everything from that sender. Not so anymore. I suspect it has to do with "software as a service" philosophy. I don't think the program resides on my computer; I think the computing gets done online, and that stuffs the whole experience up. I am disgusted. I wish there was an alternative. I have to keep my old e-mails for reference purposes, but I don't think

...and then to realize that MS totally will care less. They have worldwide corporate in their bag so the complaints of some individual users means nothing to them. Reason? They no longer want to invest in keeping up with programs like Outlook as they became gigantic monsters using millions of lines of code. Solution: rewrite it for a web interface and make it more simple for the programmers to maintain it. Then tell customers to switch as the old version will eventually go away, and... oh BTW, good luck with that.

The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible

Anonymous

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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2024-11-01T11:55:56+00:00

But that doesn't remove the main claim.

People are, or feel, forced to use your ****.

Personally iI fully agree.

Drop it

And, of course, I have changed to a more serious mail program.

To all of you who like me are tired of this, and the new silly rules for mails on the server, no matter if you like it or not, try Thunderbird.

They still offer pop3.

Of course, you will need a new mail account, but there is still mailservice that offers pop3, and

Microsoft

Letting

People

Choose

What

They

Want

And

What

They

DON'T

Want.
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2024-10-29T13:30:20+00:00

Just got a new PC. Very angry that Microsoft has made these changes to Outlook (Especially no Task link to be found!) It's like they don't even acknowledge that the earlier version ever existed. What's worse is I'm left to figure out everything on my own. Should be a seamless transition when you are using the same operating system. That is the very antithesis of user friendly.

**** people?!

Dirk
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2024-09-21T11:35:50+00:00

Yes it was designed by an idiot; or I am the idiot. If I open a mail and read it, I have to click on Inbox to see my other mails; but then it starts at the top again, and I have to scroll all the way down. I used to be able to click on a sender and then see everything from that sender. Not so anymore. I suspect it has to do with "software as a service" philosophy. I don't think the program resides on my computer; I think the computing gets done online, and that stuffs the whole experience up. I am disgusted. I wish there was an alternative. I have to keep my old e-mails for reference purposes, but I don't think
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2024-08-13T00:56:33+00:00

...and then to realize that MS totally will care less.

They have worldwide corporate in their bag so the complaints of some individual users means nothing to them.

Reason? They no longer want to invest in keeping up with programs like Outlook as they became gigantic monsters using millions of lines of code.

Solution: rewrite it for a web interface and make it more simple for the programmers to maintain it.

Then tell customers to switch as the old version will eventually go away, and... oh BTW, good luck with that.
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