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Not sure how this happened but the new outlook is easily the worst piece of software I have ever seen. That takes into account MS-Dos and Win 95 disasters.
No clue why on earth they would force this garbage on us, when most of us used to say how great outlook was......
I MUST get back to classic now and how can I do it as it dropped all my other email accounts and created armageddon
NEED answers now
Thanks you
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Likewise, terrible. I am not a perpetual "anti-change" person either. I like improved software. This is regressive.
You are right, the only thing better in the new Outlook is the search function
Agree that the latest Outlook update is a disaster. I was fortunate when going through the process of installing it and ran into problems that I aborted the process and did a bit of research. That's when I learned that the new Outlook is not yet compatible with a POP3 account, although there is no mention of it in the installation process. At that point the Outlook Classic was still on my computers, but no longer the default email program. At that point i was able to uninstall the New Outlook and revert to Classic.
I am probably a bit of a Luddite, but I want my emails on my own system and not on some distant corporate server. I'll deal with synchronizing my various computers and devices.
MS is becoming more intrusive in forcing people to adopt a subscription model. The last update completely scrambled how File Explorer appears on one of my desktops, requiring about a half hour to get it back to where it was usable again. At present I'm struggling to keep an older laptop and desktop, that are working fine now, to work until I'll probably have to replace them next October when Win 10 Pro security support ends.
At that point I'll wonder if there will even be a standalone Office program or just a subscription model.
I am having the same issue with their new outlook. It keeps asking for passwords we can't find or do not exist.
I do not understand the Microsoft's rationale to requre more money, then dumb down and reduce product service & quality. They take suffnicant time to make functional Classic, next; quickly cripple it 90%, call it new, and cringe when customers complain. Voice of the Customer - A unacceptable product, New Outlook, remains. Classic will going away. ...and so will customers.