Outlook (new)(1)_final(Copy)
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The year is 2056. There are 4^2048 characters required to display all of the “New”s for the latest version of Outlook. You’ve just bricked your fourth PC by trying to open an .ics
The year is 2026. The system requirements for Windows 12, shutting out 98% of the all current PCs in use, are set in place to manage Windows 12’s multiple new Outlook versions.
The year is 2076, we're all now on Outlook OS.
Outlook not so good
Outlook (New) OS (NEW!)
Finally those Y2K consultants will get another project
It's still so weird to me that Microsoft - who has their own, now modern, native UI framework for Windows - barely uses it in any of their own applications, instead more and more relying on ~Electron~ Edge WebView2, barely following their own design language. Do they even want people to use Windows?
They finally accepted the web as the platform after all these years...
Edge WebView2
I'm like 90% sure this requires edge to be installed, even though the EU mandated that they make edge uninstallable. So that might be their game here.
You can install WebView2 separately without the Edge GUI actually.
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They don’t even use the windows built in notification system… baffles me every time.
Sounds like Google
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The new Outlook looks like a standalone app version of OWA. They’re probably doing that to unify code bases but it’s seriously lacking some features that Outlook had.
- Can’t open PST files
- Sort was borked
- Couldn’t set caching options for Exchange
And that’s just a few I remember. Though it’s been a good year since I’ve played with it last.
Also it forwards your SMPT/IMAP data to Microsoft without your consent.
No, no, Microsoft cares about my privacy. I get a daily popup reminding me of this and also asking for me to share my private data with them.
I tried the "New Outlook" a few months ago. There was no longer a Save As option for attachments. All attachments were downloaded to the default downloads directory.
I immediately uninstalled and didn't look back.
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they're just trying to con people into using the new data harvesting mail app by calling it 'outlook'
My company moved from using Gmail to Outlook and I saw it as an opportunity to migrate to Thunderbird/K9-Mail. Best decision I made, it was a bit rough at the beggining because it needed some extension to Sync contacts but it works much faster than the shitty Outlook app/web.
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The big one for me is drag/drop, copy/paste, saving of emails and attachments between Outlook and the rest of Windows/Office is completely borked.
I have to keep both versions open at work to keep from going completely insane.
(New) disabled all my inbox rules and since you can't create new rules in the OWA irom what I could see, there was basically no management. Glad I moved my personal stuff to Proton before they kill the standard Outlook app entirely
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Outlook (new)
(New) New
This guy Microsofts
This is completely wrong. The bottom left one should be in all caps
Oh yeah, that’s a totally legit word. Not like it’s a nonsense sound. New. New. New.
New.
And as an added bonus, trying to open this in "Calendar" would show up a blank screen, that closes again, opening again in "Outlook (new)" on Windows 11.
You'd think Microsoft would get the hang of versioning at this point...
The office versions are so confusing and frustrating. I just wanna use the goddamn desktop program and not some web app.
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- Xbox
- Xbox 360
- Xbox One
- Xbox One X
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
Outlook (no I don't want it) (still) (really not) (WTF I SAID NO)
I use Outlook (new) at work, and I still sometimes look at the icon in the taskbar and think I have new emails because it has a little "new" badge.
It's funny because your new (commercial) outlook and the new (general public) outlook subscribers get from MS is not fully identical.
M$ wanted me to upload my emails.
Outlook (the one that uploads your email login password to microsoft, and which markets this as a feature)
Yep that'd the "new" one.
Even for 365 subscribers.
Same shit with Teams.
What do you mean? Its easy!
Teams White and Purple=hotmail
Teams Purple and White=365 for business
Teams Lavender (new)=Electron App
Teams Mauve (with Knuckles)=Teams except you are talking exclusively to Copilot AI
Teams Royal Purple (360 Edition)= Used by the Kansas City Royals baseball team
Teams Sky-Blue and White (Me)=Skype for Business
Teams Periwinkle= Codename for Slack
i was halfway through your comment when i realized it was a joke
Only some of it is sadly.
The infuriating thing are the ‘do you want to switch back to old terms?’ messages. Like are you fucking serious what the fuck even is the point of that what the fuck are you even doing with these ‘new’ apps if you’re going to use the same pop ups in both directions basically.
I think that happens when you launch Teams from Start. But that Teams icon is actually the link to the Old Teams with the New Teams having its own also new but separate icon somewhere else in the Start menu...
Because Microsoft.
Damn, I was used to work around shitty stuff on Teams. Are you telling me they're going to push another, different set of bugs on me now?
It's Microsoft. There's always more bugs on the way.
After the downfall of Mail and eMclient simultaneously putting the clamps down, I'm happily rediscovering Thunderbird
Same. but I couldn't set up my mfa protected work account in firebird
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Same thing with Teams
I wish they called it "Outlook Express", like the old free one. This is confusing.
They want to get rid of regular "Outlook", but "Outlook (new)" is missing a LOT of features. It's essentially just a webview that loads the web version, so it doesn't have features like native add-ins and PST files and likely never will. It doesn't look like any other Windows apps either. A good web interface, but a pretty bad app. Why even make it an app at that point? Just tell people to access the site.
It's a trap!
I'm waiting for Outlook (Taylor's Version).
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