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.

Yep... I can't change it back on mine. I'm so furious. It's such a terrible platform now. :(

Tried it today and hate it too. Quickly revert back by disabling the "trial". MS will lose reputation. Those corporate users no choice but to use, will curse IT. Please don't make it mainstream.

Not to mention; Loss of picture format controls - basically the entire ribbon functionality. Loss feature, dragging attachments OUT of an email onto a desktop or file explorer. Get rid of Focus mode - just stop it. We keep telling you we don't want it, get the message. I had to struggle to get the date to read in English (proper - small/middle/large) instead of American (middle/small/large) Settings is useless now, I still don't know where all the add-on controls are. When you reply it doesn't pop out as a separate window??? I want to read other emails to write the new email without clicking another button!! COME ON MS. Still can't get used to left click to autocorrect text, I keep right clicking it. What is this DISGUSTING attachment preview thing? good idea in theory, horrifically executed, also... when you open an attachment, it doesn't open the app on it's own in the task bar at the bottom, it opens excel for example WITHIN the Outlook app icon WHYYYY???? WHYYYYYY? to find PowerPoint/excel/word etc opened from within Outlook (and even files opened through file explorer once you've got one open through Outlook), I have to hover over Outlook!! Madness wrapped in a box this is.

As an avid user of new tech, I was looking forward to an update however as others have mentioned, its a very simple design with a ton of missing features. Might be alright for someone not needing all the business flexibility of the original but it's not for me. Other have already stated the obvious issue, I'd like to add lack of flexibility on security and attachments, not everything I receive needs and extremely over burden of security.

Yep... I can't change it back on mine. I'm so furious. It's such a terrible platform now. :( Same here. The changes are so egregiously user unfriendly as to seem the work of a particularly malicious hacker.

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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2023-05-12T19:11:41+00:00

Yep... I can't change it back on mine. I'm so furious. It's such a terrible platform now. :(
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2023-05-12T04:48:56+00:00

Tried it today and hate it too. Quickly revert back by disabling the "trial".

MS will lose reputation. Those corporate users no choice but to use, will curse IT.

Please don't make it mainstream.
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2023-06-08T15:27:03+00:00
Not to mention;
- Loss of picture format controls - basically the entire ribbon functionality.
- Loss feature, dragging attachments OUT of an email onto a desktop or file explorer.
- Get rid of Focus mode - just stop it. We keep telling you we don't want it, get the message.
- I had to struggle to get the date to read in English (proper - small/middle/large) instead of American (middle/small/large)
- Settings is useless now, I still don't know where all the add-on controls are.
- When you reply it doesn't pop out as a separate window??? I want to read other emails to write the new email without clicking another button!! COME ON MS.
- Still can't get used to left click to autocorrect text, I keep right clicking it.
- What is this DISGUSTING attachment preview thing? good idea in theory, horrifically executed, also...
- when you open an attachment, it doesn't open the app on it's own in the task bar at the bottom, it opens excel for example WITHIN the Outlook app icon WHYYYY???? WHYYYYYY? to find PowerPoint/excel/word etc opened from within Outlook (and even files opened through file explorer once you've got one open through Outlook), I have to hover over Outlook!! Madness wrapped in a box this is.
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2023-05-15T03:52:26+00:00

As an avid user of new tech, I was looking forward to an update however as others have mentioned, its a very simple design with a ton of missing features. Might be alright for someone not needing all the business flexibility of the original but it's not for me. Other have already stated the obvious issue, I'd like to add lack of flexibility on security and attachments, not everything I receive needs and extremely over burden of security.
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2023-05-12T20:50:00+00:00

Yep... I can't change it back on mine. I'm so furious. It's such a terrible platform now. :(

Same here. The changes are so egregiously user unfriendly as to seem the work of a particularly malicious hacker.
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