The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible

It is truly grim... have Microsoft gone mad?

Nope. Profits and industry domination. It's all about attracting new users and not care about existing users. The "old" Outlook is too complex for new users. Only people that have been using/relying on it for many years are dealing with this frustration.

20 years in IT and I'm about to go get a job mowing lawns.

It’s sad that everything has to taste like web these days. I don’t think people like me have a place in the future. I’m no Luddite. I’m in IT and I love tech. But there’s a place and time for web and web based apps. But there’s really nothing that can top a well developed, native app for doing real work. Especially tasks that are complex. I question whether developers exist that can even code in C anymore.

This is the worst app update I have ever installed from Microsoft. It was so slow I just left my PC until the following morning. When I returned there was a prompt to be answered before it would continue, fine, but why is this program consuming 100% of my CPU and heavily accessing my disk waiting for a response all night?

I thought the goal was supposed to consolidate all these features into one uniform app. Why does Microsoft keep creating more email clients that work differently.

Email is a decades old legacy app that they still can't get right, who are the morons writing this junk?

Aren't you embarrassed that you got paid for this garbage?

To be fair that shouldn’t have happened. This is a hybrid form of Outlook.com in a React Native wrapper. It shouldn’t use the amount of resources say that Teams would use.

That said, I don’t think there’s any degree of shame. I think the perception is that people want consistency. And it’s not consistency of features across platforms. They believe we want consistency with the web app, across all other platforms.

I think the perception is that the vast majority of people using email in the corporate environment are okay with the basics. And if they can get most of the major WinClient features, no one will notice or care that attachment previews, MIME handling, downloads, etc. will behave and operate in the web interface type of way.

I think that for a while we are done with grown ups in the development space. Web code is the simplest, lowest common denominator, and that must be what everyone wants. So the youngans will make the kiddie webcode and shove it in app wrappers and the perception is honestly that those of us b*tching here, are a small minority.

From the perspective of developers, even large corporate types like mice, believe that the grown up world of professionals have moved on from native, full fledged, desktop grade applications. That’s reserved for us few ancient fossils while the 20 something’s have moved on to smartphones, tablets, and browsers. Webcode isn’t just for making cross platform apps for mom and pops shops who can’t afford it, now it’s acceptable to do the same at the big boys and continue to charge us real money for it. They’ll add AI and someone Copilot will be the value add that’ll make you pay more for your license/subscription.

No shame. None at all. This is completely justified in their view. I guarantee it. I’m sure some hotshot even took a poll. Why bother to make good, native code, when folks will pay for garbage? And what choice do we have in the enterprise space? Your corporate IT won’t walk away from this garbage. I know I work in IT. No one’s going to drop this mess despite the complaints we’ve already had from users who got an unplanned “upgrade” to New Outlook.

You have to Google Outlook.com webmail keyboard shortcuts. Vast tracts of this app is pulled right out of Outlook.com.