• xyguy@startrek.website
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      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

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      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.

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      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?

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    The only reason I ever even tried “Outlook (new)” was because the old Microsoft “Mail” app was trash (the piece of shit wouldn’t even let me send plain text email). I immediately lost interest as soon as I realized there was a bunch of 365 shit bundled into it that I couldn’t disable.

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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.

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      (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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      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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        I think it tries to force you to save Office documents to SharePoint/OneDrive as well…

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      Can’t put any kind of internal notes on emails.

      Of course no email clients have that. Which is ridiculous.

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      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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        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.

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

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

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      @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.

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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.

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      I’ve been using it at work and its fine. Honestly, Outlook has no many strange features that date back a decade or two that have very few users that it makes sense to purge a bunch of them in favor of reducing technical debt

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    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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      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.

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      It’s weird they use webviews given they maintain the desktop port of React Native (https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/) which feels a lot better than a web view since it actually uses native UI components rather than just embedding a web browser.

      It’s gotten to the point where Apple’s newer Windows apps (like Apple Music) look better than Microsoft’s, because Apple are actually building native WinUI apps.

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      They don’t even use the windows built in notification system… baffles me every time.

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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