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Why office outlook 365 and outlook mail sucks terribly and worst emails in the whole wide world?
It was so painful to say the truth but 365 emails sucks awfully. I will list down everything below. It is too slow and buttons are most of the time unresponsive. Emails are lost when viewing in...
Minimal Viable Product is where Microsoft are taking all their, now legacy, desktop app development. They've all but completed this process for Mac users, with the resultant "pretty mess" that we have now and they are in the process of rolling it out to Windows users. Microsoft don't want us using installed desktop apps. They don't even want us using installed operating systems, even Windows. They want us existing entirely in their cloud ecosystem and this is where we are all being dragged, kicking and screaming, whether we like it or not.
deejinozyou may be correct. I have to use the cloud version of Office 365, as I use Linux as my desktop. Linux apps work fine for most purposes, but sometimes clients send me documents full of non-standard, Microsoft-specific elements, and I have no choice but to use a Microsoft Office 365 for the Web. But, if they're trying to push us towards the cloud-based versions, why are they so completely crap? There are features missing, or which are slow, or don't work properly at all. If they're trying to encourage me, they're going about it in a peculiar way.
- They don't want to make the functionality in the Web version too good otherwise it'll start to undermine the sales of their desktop apps. They want to milk as much value from a slow transition as they possibly can. This is why the web version covers only the bare minimum functionality to make them viable then they have some nice, cool features, that are not available on the desktop version. This means people will still be prepared to get the better functionality of the desktop app and accept they will need to log into the web version to access any of the web specific functions. I think Microsoft will only look at making the Office productivity suite obsolete, as a desktop app once they're happy most people are spending more of their time in their web apps (such as Teams, SharePoint and the plethora of other web apps) anyhow.
Thanks Deejinoz and others. Microsoft haven't addressed any of the issues and are unlikely to do so now. Let us hope the next version makes more sense!
Regards from South Africa.
- If you've looked at the "New Look" Outlook desktop client for Windows (only released in the last year or so) or have experienced the "New Look" Outlook desktop client for macOS (that they've been trying and failing to make decent for at least five or six years now), you would already know the next version will not make any more sense or be any more functional or usable.
- I think the general modern tech movement is to have one app to do all the things. I've noticed Android also tries to use it's email client as a web browser when opening links in email. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems that one tool designed to be all the tools wouldn't perform well at any task but suck equally for all uses. If everyone's heads are in the cloud maybe they wont notice.
