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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Same thing with Teams

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

After the downfall of Mail and eMclient simultaneously putting the clamps down, I'm happily rediscovering Thunderbird

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outlook (new)(1)_final(Copy)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's a trap!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if the tasks pane has been added to the new outlook yet. Last time I tried it at work it was no where to be found. I like having my flagged items next to my inbox.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Tasks are missing completely not to speak of all of the advanced task management functions of old outlook.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

@ramble81 @ElCanut
It is still super slow and feels limited compared to the old one.

Rules as example are really bad since it allows only a single action of given type. So to label a mail with different labels I need a rule per label instead of a single one in the previous Outlook version.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

they're just trying to con people into using the new data harvesting mail app by calling it 'outlook'

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also it forwards your SMPT/IMAP data to Microsoft without your consent.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Its the same it sucks. Had to switch back.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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