That’s all.

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    22 hours ago

    That’s all.

    There’s more: microsoft outlook is garbage

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      22 hours ago

      The new outlook has exceeded “garbage” and gone all the way to dumpster fire. It sometimes takes upwards of 15, 30 seconds to open an email. The new auto formatting is a hindrance to be overcome by tricking it to act how you want. Trying to schedule an event across timezones shits the bed half the time, resulting in improper meeting times being sent out. Absolute failure.

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        10 hours ago

        I will give respect where due: I like the sweep button. It’s handy for me personally, as someone who is on several email lists that are public-facing. That’s about it.

        Every attempt to help me automatically is a pain. Like most things in this vein it never learns what you’re trying to do, only what they would do in a given scenario that’s vaguely like ours.

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        17 hours ago

        My CISO has all but said he’s going to prevent any auto-rollout of that shit because it breaks decades of user training and TRUNCATES THE FRONT OF THE URL, NOT THE BACK LIKE ANY SENSIBLE APPLICATION.

        Like, let’s make it so Steve in accounting can’t see that the login link he wants to click is actually haxxor.com instead of bank.com, makes perfect fucking sense.

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        22 hours ago

        New Outlook also doesn’t support Really Simple Syndication, which I used a lot with the Old Outlook.

        So back to old Outlook I go.

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        22 hours ago

        Wait, really? I’ve found the new outlook opens emails faster than the old one, especially the HTML-heavy ones that my work loves to send me.

        The refactor to the rules UI is really nice too, the old one was so crusty. Can’t comment on the timezone issue though.

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          22 hours ago

          I’ve been told the extended time to open is related to how big the outlook database is, I average 200 emails received a day with various alerts and notifications from internal tools and it cripples new outlook in about a week if I’m not diligent with keeping folders cleaned out/emails deleted. This volume wasn’t a issue before I switched.

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            21 hours ago

            Ah so your issue is, let me see here… Ah, actually using Outlook like a normal user.

            I’ve tried switching to Thunderbird myself but it doesn’t support Office 365 without a third party service. So I feel stuck with Outlook.

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              21 hours ago

              Ah, actually using Outlook like a normal user.

              Ha, right? I’m keeping my fingers crossed there is some executive at MS raging and it will get resolved before they force everyone off the legacy version. Surely there are people inside their organization with tons more traffic than I see.

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                18 hours ago

                There’s probably a microsoft engineer out there somewhere sitting in a cubical who has the solution already written and tested and they just can’t figure out how to send it to their boss. They’ve tried outlook, teams, github, skype, and even one drive but they’re all so broken that it may just be faster to print the code out and mail it.

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        20 hours ago

        I accidentally switched to it and it dropped all my non-MS mailboxes. Then when I immediately switched back it had the gall to ask me why.

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      21 hours ago

      I’ll die on the hill that classic outlook is far better than Gmail and similar web interfaces for email especially if you have long threads or lots of emails.

      Also somehow Google’s email search sucks so bad compared to searching in outlook.

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          It’s actually disturbing that Thunderbird is the only good smtp/imap client available and it’s not receiving that much funding.

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        21 hours ago

        I agree. The old Outlook was snappy and dense of information. The new Outlook is just a fucking web page.

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      22 hours ago

      If I’m being honest the only Microsoft product I actually like is Excel.

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        21 hours ago

        They’re doing their best to “improve” excel too… I can’t understand how their AI generated cell fill is worse than the old approach.