Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
Thank you so much for the info. I'm definitely going to check it out. Outlook made me crazy!
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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.
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Thank you so much for the info. I'm definitely going to check it out. Outlook made me crazy!
It is open source and free. Emails are store on your device rather than in the cloud, pros and cons here depending on space.
Funded by user donations. No collectiong or selling of your data. No training of AI using your conversations. No ads. Part of the Mozilla family (Firefox browser etc).
It is simple and clear and you can add on complexity if you choose to rather than getting it all as default in outlook.
I am not putting a link here but search Thunderbird email client.
I haven't heard of Thunderbird? Do you have any particular likes or dislilkes about it? I might give it a try!
And all the time Thurderbird is getting better... time to switch back I think.
You are so right. Then old Outlook was 100 times better and easier to use.