Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
You now can't export a mailbox, or folder, to a PST as a backup!
Geniuses at Microshaft!
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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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You now can't export a mailbox, or folder, to a PST as a backup!
Geniuses at Microshaft!
I've noticed a subtle change in the "new" (read: awful) Outlook icon...the icon no longer has the "new" wrapper affixed.
Like it or not, this PoS option is heading our way.
MSFT's idea of Client Success/Experience has taken a back seat to least common denominator 'optimization'...what a cluster.
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.
Never works
Thank you so much for the info. I'm definitely going to check it out. Outlook made me crazy!