The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible

I saw a statement that certainly sounded like the current Outkook version was going to be phased out. And, on my wife’s Mac every few weeks it switches to the new Outlook without her permission, at which point she can’t access her non-MS IMAP preferred email account. I have to then help her to revert back to the old version, and all her email accounts then “magically” reappear. This is certainly coercive to say the least.

And, even if you can technically keep the old, now unsupported version, MS will most likely make it very hard not to use their preferred program. Do you remember the law suits when they made it very hard to use any browser other than IE?

The Vista example you cite is a rare instance when they openly admitted a mistake. Hopefully that will occur in this case, but the odds appear to be against it.

Carl

Actually you don’t want to do that. You want to avoid using this POS. It doesn’t matter what name you give this — a program, a web app, or the New Coke — MS is trying to force us to use it. Don’t give in. Force them to admit their mistake and back off, or suffer the consequences. Outlook is not the only game in town.

The new outlook is indeed very user UNfriendly. For starters it is extremely slow to load and to do anything with. It also does not seem possible to customise the calender colors such as changing the color of the squares around the dates or the background color around the row of dates. I have searched on the net to find out how to do this, but everyone tells me to go to file and options. Well, there is no file button in the new outlook. At least not one that I can find.

Regarding the email function, it is not possible to insert an attachment in a reply unless you open up the message window fully by double clicking on the message. If you reply in the small message window on the side there is no option to add an attachment.

This is a classic example of an upgrade that is actually a downgrade. Gmail, here we come.

Please fix the interface, there is so much going on its not productive at all. The only improvement I saw was effectively searching for future meetings by name in a calendar view.

Had to switch back to the old view - dreading the forced change in 2024

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.

Staud Outlook is garbage. New Outlook is the garbage that garbage throws out.