hate the new outlook that is replacing win mail. any alternative that is similar to win mail that is simple and fast to load?

The problem with Outlook isn't that it's slow. It's visually cluttered and difficult to see (why, oh, why, is everything gray instead of black?), the functions are hard to find and figure out, and the functionality is clunky. It is also incredibly annoying that you can't scroll down the calendar, but must use your mouse to select the next month. Frequently, I'm trying to look at a sequence of events that straddles two months.

My current peeve, which is what brought me here, is that I have a recurrent appointment every Tuesday. Outlook highlights every day of the week, not just Tuesdays. Why would you do that?

Outlook has been around for a long time, and I used to use it without complaint. Windows 10 calendar and email were so much better, and if you had to pick only one, I wish you would have picked the good one. But Microsoft not only made us all move to Outlook; they've changed Outlook to be clunky and user-unfriendly.

I'm hanging on to my Windows 10 computer for as long as I can, since Windows 11 looks like another effort to make things better that just makes them worse. I wish there was a third option, because I don't want to switch to Apple but I sure am getting tired of Microsoft's failure to respect how much work is invested in knowing a system, and how much wasted effort is created when MS decides to change things up just to be new..

Totally agree. The forced move to the "New" Outlook is reminscent of the switch to New Coke. At least Coca Cola quickly learned from its gigantic mistake and reverted to what their customers wanted and loved. Highly doubting the Microsoft Gang wil recognize the horrible mistake this product is and go back to what worked. Hopefully the drumbeats get louder and they allow for a change back

The thing is, the folks at Microsoft know that they are much, much smarter than we are, so they know better than we do what's best for us. The other thing is, they don't care at all about what we think.

Who DOESN'T have a large mailbox? The fact that the software is not designed to handle the massive amount of information of emails typical of any working professional, with attachments, images, etc, is subpar. The Outlook desktop app is poorly designed if this can be an issue. Meanwhile Outlook Webmail can handle the large inbox without a glitch. Why is this?

I envision them all being in their twenties, with no concept of what it means for millions of people to spend decades learning their way around a system and how much accumulated knowledge they destroy every time they make some whiz-bang new change.