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Outlook 365, how to go back to OLD ribbon graphics and icons
I find outlook totally unusable since it updated to the new for-toddler icons. Not only is it ugly, it's distracting and unusable. As if outlook is broken and running in safe-let's-go-back-to-1995-m...
As others have mentioned, the MSFT folks have taken a step backwards in usability in their efforts to be hip and trendy (and more Apple like).
The situation is another benefit for using virtual machines. I have a MacBookPro (better designed, engineered and built than anything you can find in the Windows world) running Parallels. I run a Win10 VM for most of my stuff, but keep a Win7 VM running so I can have my old, more useful and more productive Outlook 2010 at hand.
2010 is the best, however, some of my email accounts refuse to play nice with 2010. Been using workarounds for years (routing troubled email servers through a separate email server) but having more and more issues = unable to continue to patch the holes in the bucket