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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 browser.
Both UI and UX makes the email system more complex and confusing.
It's so beautiful but it's nearly useless when talking about efficiency.
The good thing is only calendar feature.
In outlook email, people suffer the birthday reminders which they cannot unsubscribe.
And so many tons of bugs and pains I forget to mention.
Now it is telling me "Session Expired" everytime after I log in.
My colleagues also have the same problem.
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There is NO reason whatsoever for Outlook 365 to be such a terrible mess. Microsoft should just get out of the email business, since they obviously can't create a stable version of this piece of crap.
Saw Shine Moe It just sucks, don't expect it to get any better. Microsoft's super massive black hole to suck up every other domain, email server, email provider, etc. and collect a monthly fee rather than a one time perpetual license.
- I'm surrendering, this item is just off-base, Microsoft has lost themselves all along, all the straightforward assignment is suffocating in garbage includes that are excessively muddled to arrangement.
I make programming professionally, however I essentially can't sort out how Microsoft is attempting to manage this item, I should return to simply involving google and part with office for good
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it is the worst product out there constantly crashes Why cant they just give it an overhaul ? Saw Shine Moe
I am giving up, this product is simply wrong, Microsoft has lost their way from the very beginning, all the simple task is drowning in junk features that are too complicated to setup.
I make software for a living, but I simply can’t figure out what Microsoft is trying to do with this product, I will have to go back to just using google and part with office for good.
i would also add
1. the crashes out of blue " the set of folders cannot be opened" - headaches to repair
2. cannot automatically add email senders to my contact list (like the now-gone XOBNI did)
3. when typing a contact name to send an email to, it only looks up by the first letter. if you don't remember his email's first letter, good luck (like thunderbird does and gmail, it checks within the whole contact, not the first letter).
4. cannot sync email signature across devices
5. cannot properly prioritize emails (or snooze them)
the list can go on and on...Sad as i don't have a better alternative
I came here out of pure frustration at how much Outlook Mail SUCKS and has been just destroyed by whatever group of amateurs they must have had working on it. It's so bad, it deserves an award. It's just a nightmare to deal with.
Can we do, like, a class action lawsuit? I simply can't believe how awful this email server has become.- It's absolutely terrible!! I'm so po'd because Microsoft's promotion materials said that Office 365 versions of the apps were "Premium" versions. Premium??? If they were being honest they would have said "watered down versions". In Outlook for 365 you can't search for related emails, if you choose to have copies of sent emails save in the folder they were originated from they save at the top without showing a date (so they don't display in sequential order with the rest of the conversation), you can't "edit" a sent email to add notes, you can't ""Add Item" (i.e. attach another email) except via a rudimentary process of first forwarding the other email as an attachment and then copy it to the other email you want to attach it to...assuming you need to attach multiple prior emails. Those are just 4 that immediately jump to mind. And don't even get me started on OneDrive!! Let me guess, I suppose Microsoft won't apply the annual purchase price of 365 to a desktop version? And even if they did you'd be paying their MSRP price instead of the market price. I could not possibly hate Microsoft more right now!
- It still sucks, big time. You may be too young, but Outlook Express was the best they ever offered, and it has been all downhill since they stopped offering it. 365 sucks in so many ways that it's difficult to list.
The first clue is that MS actually lists reg edit fixes to change options as simple as a scroll bar width or colors. Really MS? No GUI for a featuref you always had in an easily-configurable GUI? We are all supposed to see colors and sizes your way, or the hugely useless "accessible" way? I can give IT a heart attack by going into reg edit, and multiple other sites help with that as well.
That's just viewing options.
RIBBON - Omg, what Sesame Street grad created that awful monstrosity? The ribbon is so useless, it's best to permanently hide it, and customize the mini-ribbon. Caution, if you hide the main ribbon, keyboard shortcuts change (MS: "Surprise, Suckers!").
365 - Built "up" from a home-based non-business model focused on multi-media-for-profit, it left professional users fending for themselves for solutions. Unlike you, MS, most of us need to WORK at WORK, not play with real-estate-grabbing and largely useless toy icons.
I could go on and on, but need to GET WORK-AROUNDs done while forced to use this, in my opinion, inferior business product.
Another bundle of crap from MS.. Office 365 really sucks and I'm so frustrated that I could not get it downgraded to an earlier version because the **bleep** IT sec department where I'm working wont allow it. This piece of crap is no better than the first program written by a newbie. The UI is unresponsive most of the time, takes sooooo long to load the profile as if it is loading from another planet. After waiting so long to send a mail, adding insult to injury this crap send blank/empty mails to all the recipients without giving me a clue that it is going to send an empty email. All what I typed is gone forever. This is happening quite often and the b***s update Build 9029.2167 did not fix this issue as claiming by MS.
- Well, after past 2.5y with doing office work by using Apps from Office 365, I hardly do have problems to recognize your problems as in my gate. I'm using e-mail office part installed in 3 different PC now for past 2.5y, no and I'm happy in 95 % of all working executable by O365 Apps. My 5% down distrust of the O365 suite is poor user experience of Cortina that does not work under Outllok O365 with associated search function. Error "Something went wrong" and that's it. It is a hopeless situation where even pro Microsoft gives up in the troubleshoot, ask me to completely reinstall WIN10_64! Such answers they suck, you ask me. Beyond these 5% with little satisfaction, the O365 system works. Good luck!
- If you break down your issues and explain the actual problems in a more formal way, I’m sure you can get help! “Sucks” is not very helpful for us to figure out your problems with Outlook!
AdamCan we tell what is good instead compare to old version, it will take less time. The ability to pin email. In this manner, I think 'suck' is a good term to use.adam deltinger
- Victor_Ungureanu
Microsoft
Do you get the session expired message when logging in after a long period of inactivity? Maybe the session really expired. If that's the case, then you can change the timeouts.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/session-timeouts?redirectSourcePath=%252fen-us%252farticle%252fSession-timeouts-for-Office-365-37a5c116-5b07-4f70-8333-5b86fd2c3c40Thank you for trying however the answer was that I was using the web version of outlook 365 that is a stripped down version of outlook- I downloaded the desktop version and now have the tools I need. It would be nice if Microsoft told us that - but again its Microsoft - you are really on your own!
- Victor_UngureanuI'm not sure if you know, but you have technical phone support included in your subscription (even for trial subscriptions), so you are not at all on your own. If something is not working as it should, contact support.
I will add to this - the frustration is so High with Microsoft - how can you put out junk like this after all the knowledge from desktop outlook - you put out a half-built version for 365 - buyer beware.
I will add - the import contacts section does not even give you an option to upload from a spreadsheet file - so hold on...there is an option I had to figure out in the import contacts option called " import from window live" so it give the option to upload from a CSV file however it doesnt work!! Ha Really Microsoft I keep getting an error ...a joke really "upload failed - check to see that you are uploading a Outlook compatible CSV file" what, really, I have never heard of that one?? Microsoft please explain- so frustrating when you put out buggy software - but that's your way isn't it !! Hater no doubt
Just more evidence that Microsoft is an inept POS company. Over bloated GARBAGE PRODUCT that never works, too many revisions, difficult to navigate, crashing, slow, etc.. Complete and utter embarrassing product.
Keep it up Microshaft, the community has moved on to better, free products.
- You may have missed
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/import-contacts-from-an-excel-spreadsheet-to-outlook-f6483469-0684-4c30-82c5-c881930f5451
