The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible

Aside from what others have said about the layout being an atrocious mess, there are a couple of other things I'd call out as reasons I'm going to avoid the switch until there is no choice - and then likely jump ship to new Gmail accounts or something.

1. Font size and spacing: While not much different, it seems like the font has smaller spacing or something. It's much harder to read than the old version. At least give us the option to change the font size in the app because it's tiny. While I do run high resolution, I increase font size by default because having to squint at my monitor just because I want good resolution is BS. I keep my monitor about 2.5 ft. away for a comfortable working distance. I like to be able to increase font size in apps to view comfortably without getting a headache from eye strain.
2. Restore the ability to see number of new/unread emails on the accounts: With the old version, I can look at the roster of email accounts and see when there are new emails in each account. With the new version, I have to click on the account to open the drop down menu then look there. I thought innovation was about streamlining processes, not adding extra steps.

You know that episode of The Simpsons where Homer designs a car? That's what we're looking at here. This is the Homer edition of Outlook.

The Homer Edition made me laugh and I agree! I was looking for the number of messages in my Inbox this morning and I was astounded that they took that away. Whoever designed this must be a full-time programmer who does not support the app or customers who use the app.

It's now December and the Outlook app that comes with Office365 is still awful. I wish I could go back to the old Outlook, but I had to switch because my telus (gmail) accounts no longer worked with the old Outlook. Here are some of the essentials that have been ripped away:

• I can no longer drag an email to the calendar to create an appointment.
• I can no longer drag an email to the task list to create a task.
• I cannot add more than 4 email accounts.
• There is no longer a universal contact list for all accounts. (I am an individual user, not a member of an organization with and Exchange server). I have to create an individual contact list for each account and there is no easy way to automatically sync them. (And yet there appears to be a universal contact list for Outlook on my phone which I can use for all accounts. But maybe that's an Android or a Samsung thing).
• The Task icon opens the task list in the browser rather than the Task app on my Windows 11 PC.
• I cannot move an email to a folder in another email account like I used to do.
• All received emails in all accounts show "To: You" rather than showing the receiving email account name.
• If I read an email, the highlighting goes away, But then the next time I go into Outlook, all my emails are highlighted again meaning unread.
• I put the inbox for each account in the favorites list and the combined inbox disappeared and I can't find a way to get it back.
• I cannot specify what fields I want to see in the email list other than the limited number of settings in the Settings tool.
• The options for calendar and task reminders are too limited. For example, I cannot set a reminder for a day ahead and then reset it to remind me every 12 hours, or 8 hours or 4 hours, ..., every 30 minutes so that I don't forget important appointments or tasks when I am immersed in what I am doing.
• The "Help" is useless. It keeps bringing up instructions for the old Outlook or for web Outlook.
• Support is useless. They can do nothing except to say, "It depends on the settings in web Outlook" or "the developers did not develop it that way".

I keep asking myself why I am paying for this! I use Word, Excel and Powerpoint for some volunteer work and OneDrive to backup photos and documents. It's a daunting task to move everything to other apps, but I'm thinking about it!

Thanks. Having a look at these apps.

I can't believe it is still so bad. Still slow, still bad :(
Hey microsoft, I think I shouldn't have to search for a long time to figure out how to have a joint inbox for all accounts again. (Why would a company change my setting and expect me to figure out how to get it back to how it was without a simple button for it?) Please advisehow to do it.