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.

Definitely a piece of junk for productivity. The old desktop Outlook, when you click on the message title, it is selected and you can select multiple messages with CTRL to delete or move etc. In this new Outlook version, the email opens up when you simply click on the message automatically. Not allowing a user to abide by the security rule of Not opening suspicious emails.. that may have come through undetected for Phishing, malware, spam etc. To select a particular message to action on, you have to check the left box next to the message. Try doing that for a bunch of emails and you end up missing the box and opening up the message instead.. then have to close to select. When you work with hundreds of emails in your Inbox, this one click on message opening is a POS feature.

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

I COULD NOT AGREE MORE!! This absolutely sucks something I can't say on a forum. As is typical with Microsoft, have to "fix" what's not broken. The functionality, usability and pure ease of use has been destroyed. All I can think (for my enterprise) is that it's time to go full on Gmail by google. What a horrible mistake this company has made taking away a utility that was working just fine.

The fact that I have opened task manager to close outlook more than to resolve the outlook loading problems just makes it more apparent as to why I should discontinue it.

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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2023-12-22T18:46:56+00:00

Definitely a piece of junk for productivity. The old desktop Outlook, when you click on the message title, it is selected and you can select multiple messages with CTRL to delete or move etc. In this new Outlook version, the email opens up when you simply click on the message automatically. Not allowing a user to abide by the security rule of Not opening suspicious emails.. that may have come through undetected for Phishing, malware, spam etc.

To select a particular message to action on, you have to check the left box next to the message. Try doing that for a bunch of emails and you end up missing the box and opening up the message instead.. then have to close to select.

When you work with hundreds of emails in your Inbox, this one click on message opening is a POS feature.
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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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2023-12-15T21:25:42+00:00

I COULD NOT AGREE MORE!! This absolutely sucks something I can't say on a forum. As is typical with Microsoft, have to "fix" what's not broken. The functionality, usability and pure ease of use has been destroyed.

All I can think (for my enterprise) is that it's time to go full on Gmail by google. What a horrible mistake this company has made taking away a utility that was working just fine.
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2023-12-12T14:34:29+00:00

The fact that I have opened task manager to close outlook more than to resolve the outlook loading problems just makes it more apparent as to why I should discontinue it.
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