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The new Outlook search in the title bar is disconnected from the content it searches
I appreciate the benefits of Microsoft Search in the Office apps but I'm getting feedback form multiple people that having the search in the title bar is unhelpful because they need to use the title ...
The new location in the title bar is a wrong move, against any kind of good user experience expectation and just impacts the natural flow for how to conduct search. Please make the position a configurable option. The cycnic in me is thinking MS are doing away with embedded search and that will be through some general Office/Delve/teams mechanism down the line.
I also do not like this change.
That said, they did a better job with this in the latest version of Outlook for the Mac. There are a lot of nice design changes there and the larger size of the search box and the closer proximity to the inbox make it work well.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21448985/microsoft-outlook-for-mac-new-design-october-release
My concern is that this change is now in the stable release of Office, so it sounds like Microsoft has decided to stick with this change. And we are probably a long way off before the Mac design changes make it to the Windows version.