There are currently still 481 features in development - that is a lot. Though MS states that this is a "preview" of the new Outlook - it misses way too many primary features for it to have been rolled out this way. I beta test Mac OS and IOS software....Apple would never release a developer beta that misses that many fundamental functions. Microsoft did not even go through the hassle of warning you when you toggle the little icon to "New Outlook" that it is an early beta...you need to read supporting documentations to find out:
- No full Exchange Support (what? without Exchange support there is no Outlook duhh)
- Notes and Tasks not yet supported
- Gmail and IMAP mail set-up not yet supported
- Shared calendars not supported
- Countless functions like re-sending an email and the flagging of emails not fully functioning and so on...
MS did publish a roadmap to the full release but that is unfortunately BS. It was written way back and never updated. It lists roll-out dates for features that have long passed without the feature having been rolled out. Gee...you'd think a company like Microsoft would have a better handle on this. So to all of the people who are listing missing features....MS knows....you just did not know that they rolled out what could best be described as a pre-beta version.
As for the UI design....that is a question of taste and it happens to not be mine. Its too cute...almost like Microsoft is targeting non enterprise individual users to switch away from google or Apple mail to Outlook. Hmmm....