MicrosoftI can't understand changes like this that would be nice as optional alternatives but instead are forced updates.
The added navigation bar to the left of Outlook was another one. I guess that it's taken for granted that everyone has wide screens? Do you not test these changes with a wide variety of hardware types? Changes advertised as "freeing up screen space" while actually instead ruining a good use of space (vertically) to instead take up more of the precious horizontal space.
Please consider the image. The search list previously showed up over the top of the pages list on the right. Worked great. Now it covers the page text. OneNote's search works great, a great example for other apps to follow. You type a search term, see a list of pages with matches, click the title of the page you think you might be looking for, and see it displayed with results highlighted. That final step is complicated, now- unless you happen to have plenty of free space left-to-right.
See where the "Sticky Notes" and "Share" are, at the right side of the ribbon? That'd be a great spot for the Search, and would keep it always over the right side. The right side of the tabs bar would work. Or, a perfect spot would be the top of the Pages list (you know, like, where it basically already was?)
if you pin search results - which only works for the current search - they pin in the right hand task bar; it makes sense to keep the search field there too!
