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.

I've got to agree. I look forward to new launches and updates, but the New Outlook is terrible. It doesn't have half the functionality of the existing version. Shred calendars are poor, quick tasks are poor, people view is poor..... and I could go on. Come on Microsoft, we do love outlook, just get the new version much better! Thanks

I agree the old one worked, we get adverts rammed down our throught now we getting snagging messages to upgrade it NO its horrible a option to make the txt size bigger plus I'm on multiple monitors and the option for apps to remember what screen it opened on does not work So it opens on my monitor one and not two even if I drag it over it opens on my main No body on here likes it its realy bad on a surface

the "New" Outlook is simply a scam. It looks and works like the web version of outlook, much less features and option, much bigger buttons to meet the dumbness of some users. Ok, I get it. For Home users. Maybe. For business? Oh hell no! If you give me a webapp-like version instead of the Desktop one I purchased (see difference in price between 365 Business Basic -> web apps and Business Premium -> Desktop Apps), then I want my money back! It's like back in the day, when they released Windows ME, and all professional users went mad because it was all graphics and no functionality. MS, get your S#@T together!

I've tried so hard to like New Outlook because of the primse that it will offer a common experience across different platforms. However, aside from being able to send timed emails withouth Windows Outlook client running, I struggle to find anything better about it. But I have no trouble finding thing that are worse. Top the tree, is that it doesn't work offline! What use is an email client on a laptop, if it doesn't work offline? How is that any better than Outlook on the web? Given that New Outlook has been under development for so long, and it is still missing absolutely fundamental functionality, I have to wonder if Microsoft has backed the wrong horse. And, at some point, they might drag it to the Recycle Bin and start again with native apps.

Glad to see I'm not the only one - a total nightmare. I can't import contacts, I can't copy addresses to contact list, emails to group lists don't go, where is send/receive.... it just goes on.

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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2024-02-23T14:18:11+00:00

I've got to agree. I look forward to new launches and updates, but the New Outlook is terrible. It doesn't have half the functionality of the existing version. Shred calendars are poor, quick tasks are poor, people view is poor..... and I could go on.

Come on Microsoft, we do love outlook, just get the new version much better!

Thanks
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2024-02-29T14:42:28+00:00

I agree the old one worked, we get adverts rammed down our throught now we getting snagging messages to upgrade it

NO its horrible a option to make the txt size bigger plus I'm on multiple monitors and the option for apps to remember what screen it opened on does not work

So it opens on my monitor one and not two even if I drag it over it opens on my main

No body on here likes it its realy bad on a surface
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2024-02-29T15:51:01+00:00

the "New" Outlook is simply a scam.

It looks and works like the web version of outlook, much less features and option, much bigger buttons to meet the dumbness of some users.

Ok, I get it. For Home users. Maybe.

For business? Oh hell no!

If you give me a webapp-like version instead of the Desktop one I purchased (see difference in price between 365 Business Basic -> web apps and Business Premium -> Desktop Apps), then I want my money back!

It's like back in the day, when they released Windows ME, and all professional users went mad because it was all graphics and no functionality.

MS, get your S#@T together!
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2024-03-04T07:36:42+00:00

I've tried so hard to like New Outlook because of the primse that it will offer a common experience across different platforms. However, aside from being able to send timed emails withouth Windows Outlook client running, I struggle to find anything better about it. But I have no trouble finding thing that are worse. Top the tree, is that it doesn't work offline! What use is an email client on a laptop, if it doesn't work offline? How is that any better than Outlook on the web?

Given that New Outlook has been under development for so long, and it is still missing absolutely fundamental functionality, I have to wonder if Microsoft has backed the wrong horse. And, at some point, they might drag it to the Recycle Bin and start again with native apps.
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2024-03-05T16:39:54+00:00

Glad to see I'm not the only one - a total nightmare. I can't import contacts, I can't copy addresses to contact list, emails to group lists don't go, where is send/receive.... it just goes on.
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