Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
New outlook is a disaster! Please get ready of it.
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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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New outlook is a disaster! Please get ready of it.
Don't go anywhere near it - even for a look. Just stay as you are.
It's the worst-ever Microsoft software release, and Microsoft pay no attention to the comments being made.
I got a subscription. My usual outlook is still working fine. Do I need to update this?
It's a terrible product almost a full year after this post. There's a laundry list of missing features. IF you use Outlook for business, do not use New Outlook, IT IS TERRIBLE.
Yes, I've tried Microsofts New Outlook 365 for about a month. The reason I've even bothered for that long is I was hoping there'd be updates available. The app is a backward step for many reasons. I has it's own spam filter which I make no comment about but subscribe to 3rd party apps which this app doesn't seem to support. In the old app I could use Add in applications easily, but I can't find it in the new version.
On the positive side I quite like the GUI but that's about all I can say. A company the size of Microsoft seems to be deprecating it's e-mail app which they need to be careful about as it's an important part of the Office 365 experience. There are other solutions out there for e-mail and for the other office applications but I've stuck with Microsoft because I've always believed that any issues would be resolved which has been the case over the last 20 years or so. It's time for Microsoft to step up to the table and re think Outlook and quickly or risk losing possibly millions of office subscriptions. My mindset is to always pay for the best and stay at the cutting edge but I'll be one of them.