Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
Has anyone at Microsoft actually user tested the new outlook, or done any customer sessions? To say it's style over substance is an absolute understatement. Not being able to attach an email to an existing meeting is ridiculous.
In meeting invites I searched for a loooong time to find out how to format the text as there is pretty much nothing in the settings. Then I found the text formatting bar, at the bottom of the email invite, so to add bullet points to the text at the top, I had to scroll all they way to the bottom, then to change the indent, I had to go back up to the top, higlight the text then scroll back down to the bottom again! I mean why would you put it there instead of pinning it to the top bar where it has always been.
So many features are now non-existent. I really do wonder if the designers of this new outlook have actually viewed how people normally work with it. Why for example in the calendar settings - are there settings for whether I want to add all sorts of travel items to my calandar - this is pretty much all there is in the settings, whereas must be a tiny percentage of what people use outlook calendar for. Whilst at the same time, everyday features that are needed and used either don't exist or you have to google in order to find them because it's so counter-intuitive.
Very poor play Microsoft.