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.

The design of the new Outlook 365 is a horror on par with one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse approaching full speed. It heralds the end of e-mail as a manageable useful tool in the business and foreshadows the outcry of millions of users unable to get their work done seconded by a deep unforgiving sigh uttered by masses of it supporters resigning their fate to the inevitable role of IT shrinks "we understand but what can we do? What can anyone do?". Microsoft spends time and money redesigning interfaces for applications that have been standardized over 3 decades. That is perhaps the most idiotic thing ever. As if this will "glow up" e-mail for Zoomers to "find it lit". They wont because it is not. Its a big L. Big Yikes and Microsoft needs to take several seats and let this go. At the same time the major part of the work force and especially those using a lot of e-mail do not have the capacity nor desire to learn something that basic over again. As I see it the strategy here is to kill e-mail by making it useless and too cumbersome in favor of Teams. That must be it. It would never happen if there was real competition in clients connecting to Exchange. Because if that was the case, Microsoft would just have lost the part of their user base who understand how to switch clients. The rest would be damned to reside in Outlook Disneyland where functionality has been removed to make room for clunky less informative UI.

Awesome review and well written. I appreciate your insights.

GET THE OLD VERSION BACK BEFORE YOU CREATE A WAR! NO CONNECTION OF PAST EMAILS SO MY ENERGY PROVIDER HAS PISSED ME ABOUT FOR 2 BLOODY MONTHS AND COST ME MORE PHONCALL MONEY THAN BLOODY ENERGY USED!!! SORT THIS OUT RIGHT NOW OR ELSE!!! WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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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2023-09-29T14:07:50+00:00

The design of the new Outlook 365 is a horror on par with one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse approaching full speed.

It heralds the end of e-mail as a manageable useful tool in the business and foreshadows the outcry of millions of users unable to get their work done seconded by a deep unforgiving sigh uttered by masses of it supporters resigning their fate to the inevitable role of IT shrinks "we understand but what can we do? What can anyone do?".

Microsoft spends time and money redesigning interfaces for applications that have been standardized over 3 decades. That is perhaps the most idiotic thing ever. As if this will "glow up" e-mail for Zoomers to "find it lit". They wont because it is not. Its a big L. Big Yikes and Microsoft needs to take several seats and let this go.

At the same time the major part of the work force and especially those using a lot of e-mail do not have the capacity nor desire to learn something that basic over again.

As I see it the strategy here is to kill e-mail by making it useless and too cumbersome in favor of Teams. That must be it. It would never happen if there was real competition in clients connecting to Exchange. Because if that was the case, Microsoft would just have lost the part of their user base who understand how to switch clients. The rest would be damned to reside in Outlook Disneyland where functionality has been removed to make room for clunky less informative UI.
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2023-09-29T14:31:57+00:00

Awesome review and well written. I appreciate your insights.
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2023-10-01T00:41:20+00:00

GET THE OLD VERSION BACK BEFORE YOU CREATE A WAR!
NO CONNECTION OF PAST EMAILS SO MY ENERGY PROVIDER HAS PISSED ME ABOUT FOR 2 BLOODY MONTHS AND COST ME MORE PHONCALL MONEY THAN BLOODY ENERGY USED!!!

SORT THIS OUT RIGHT NOW OR ELSE!!!

WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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