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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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- The calendar sucks too, I have users add events to a shared calendar only to have the event not display on another's calendar. Desktop version why is it when you have multiple calendars there is not a selection pull-down so you know what calendar you are actually adding the event? Why when you click on a calendar name it unselects it, it should highlight, set its focus, to that calendar so when you are entering an event you know it is going on that calendar. Microsoft has never been innovative, they buy other's innovations then stop improving.
Microsoft email's services are the biggest pain in the butt I have to deal with. Every single option I need requires an Administrator to enable it, and guess what? They don't enable it. The list is too long of things that simply DON'T work in Outlook. Office 365 or whatever Microshit decides to name their pathetic email service is the worst messaging service I've ever used since I use it. This sh*t is so unproductive I will for the first time in my life buy firework rockets when my company finally decides to shift away from it.
- Did I forget to say I hate Outlook/Office 365? And that the sentiment is mutual?
I miss the days when I could sync my calendar to my iphone calendar and receive notifications. The outlook app on my phone is not as reliable and doesn't remind me of meetings consistently. It;s locked down so corporations can read your messages, track files and read emails. No privacy! At least Apple respects privacy,
Saw Shine Moe i aint gonna lie even the free mail is better than this POS. in 365 word, presentation all of that is good but when you go to this BS its a different story I get sign in emails 24-7 when I'm signed in and I cant delete accounts or add accounts over all dogshit
I have had nothing but problems with my emails since Outlook was updated. At first I thought my emails were being censored. I have SPECTRUM as my internet provider and my emails in and out passing through Outlook. Over the past month, a big majority of my emails were not received. I called SPECTRUM and the tech worked with me for an hour to resolve the issue. He had me email myself through my SPECTRUM web-mail. I did. It came back okay, Then I tried emailing myself through outlook and it never returned. So it was determined it was Microsoft's problem. I even sent email through Outlook to my Yahoo email and it never got there. Microsoft should have left the last version as is. I never had any problem before. And trying to get technical support is like me trying to get a hold of Bill Gates, which will never happen. I hope I find, which I thank there still is, another word processing program the will serve me better then what Microsoft ts doing. IF ITS NOT BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!
Saw Shine Moe Agree - Outlook is horrible. For my profession, I must draft lengthily emails. I like to print them so I can read, edit and review them. When I first switched to 365 Outlook I couldn't print a draft email. Then it seemed to get fixed, and has been fine for about a year or so. Now, all of sudden, I can't print a draft email anymore. Right at the beginning of tax season - just what I need! Great. I tell clients all the time - Office 365 is terrible. Especially Outlook - this is one HUGE reason.
There is an awful lot of traffic on a plethora of forums about how slow, unreliable and buggy Outlook is. There are a few things we have to consider, to put this into some perspective:
1. It has been Microsoft's long term objective, for a few years now, to focus on it's cloud based systems. This has manifested itself in the majority of resources going into the development of their MS 365 ecosystem.
2. The desktop, as far as Microsoft is concerned is only a legacy environment. This is why Windows 10 development has has been focussed on only two things. Driving hooks into the MS 365 ecosystem and window dressing, to give them some shiny new things to Wow! about.
3. To the end of both of the above, the Office installable apps have slowly had dev time removed, resulting in the UI, functionality, speed and reliability all declining. Death by a million tiny cuts is what we are witnessing.
Microsoft are shepherding us all towards an always online and always paying existence. This is the new computing paradigm, Microsoft are just doing as they always do and innovating poorly whilst failing to let go of decades of baggage.Saw Shine Moe for some strange reason Exchange and Outlook are basically the same since 30 years. Additionally, they never really integrated with the other MS products, starting with Sharepoint thru Office, Dynamics etc. I really do not understand, why Outlook never changed its old fashioned design and foremost their filtering technology. Every worldwide Enterprise user has personally far nicer and smarter email clients on their PCs, tablets or smartphones. I do not understand why MS is trying to become Nr 1 in chat, videoconferencing, data sharing, while the most used communication technology is kept like a dinosaur.
hamilthrh
I agree . The new outlook is a major step back. Looks amateurish not professional as on the prior version. Does not seem to have any input from their users. Considering dropping the email service and using some other service. Huge disappointment on this product release. Expected better.
my sent emails in my sent folder have a paper clip on them when there is no attachment. Outlook 365 does it where there is a signature graphic in the email chain. This is very unfortunate as I cannot tell which emails have a true attachment on them. I have to open them all to find the attachment I am looking for!!!!!
How can it be fixed?
Outlook is a royal pain. I've tried setting it up multiple times over multiple years without success. I try every once in a while if I figure that I haven't been super PO'd for some time. Gotta get my PO dosage every so often! That's why I use Mozilla Thunderbird. At least I can set that up the first time I try as it pretty much does everything all by its lonesome. (But then Microsoft generally is a pain.) Saw Shine Moe
