Why is the "New" Outlook for Windows client so awful...deliberately???

Anonymous
2024-02-26T17:21:00+00:00

While I believe I understand some of the reasoning behind the marginally improved "New" Outlook while lamenting the overall deprecated experience - namely, an effort to normalize the look and feel across the desktop, mobile and web versions - the path taken is regressive in nature, at least for those of us who've long relied upon the desktop variant to manage much of their eMail, task and scheduling affairs.

I've been comfortable with the working knowledge that detailed work associated with eMail, tasks and scheduling has been the province of the desktop client, while the mobile and web versions offered very functional and not as detailed abilities.

Now, after having lived with the "new" Outlook desktop client for months now, I can conclude that the 'improvements' to this client when compared to its current and soon former versions is far less capable and far more mobile/web like in function - overall, a deprecated experience.

One notable issue is the mere fact that one can seemingly no longer remove attachments directly from an eMail. While this may seem trivial to some, having attachments to eMail AND the ability to download same simply increases the already arduous task of managing one's documents, while increasing the overall storage footprint (since these could now be stored in at least two places), which could represent increased subscription costs over time.

Microsoft, PLEASE revisit this intended direction for the desktop client, and instead consider introducing some of the long-favored desktop client functions into the mobile and web variants, in turn genuinely introducing "new" functionality all around.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-15T11:09:14+00:00

    I believe we've only really recovered in the last year or so from a decade of regression just to be able to make apps work in cloud services. They really took the aesthetics of Office apps back several years with their square and simple releases in Office 2013, only now returning back to improved versions of how 2010 looked. This new Outlook is the same - being shoehorned into matching the web app version and completely ruining the aesthetic features of traditional Outlook in the process.

    PLEASE DON'T MAKE THIS COMPULSARY.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-14T18:35:33+00:00

    I have used Outlook for decades. The new Outlook is horrible and, for the first time, I am considering moving to another email client. I have already done this on my mobile devices.

    New Outlook is shockingly bad. I am astounded Microsoft released it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-12T19:22:46+00:00

    It keeps sending duplicate emails

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-10T15:50:32+00:00

    Completely agree.

    • Attachment management is very user-unfriendly.
    • If you classify your emails into folders and subfolders and have rules to send emails to these folders, you can't see if you have new emails unless you open the folders.
    • No way to customize folders
    • The search feature defaults to prioritizing certain emails, which are never the ones you're actually looking for.

    And so on.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-01T02:11:14+00:00

    Thank you thank you thank you. The new format was driving me crazy and microsofts instructions were not correct. This works. Gmail seems to be much easier to setup which is good. All my calendars have to be setup again though :(

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