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Anyone else hate the New Desktop Outlook?.
Hello people
I was wondering if anyone else Hated the Desktop version of Outlook?. To me its slower and unresponsive compared to previous versions. Even Windows Mail was faster and the brings up old email accounts that you deleted and no longer use long ago.
It seems while good intentions this one has not been tested properly. Just shoved out the door. And lastly trying to find Emails that your sent or received is another nightmare. You have to restart twice before it finally decides oh look there emails.
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What idiot at Microsoft is in charge of this nonsense? Pushing through an update with no notice to the most commonly used piece of software on my computer....that completely changes how multiple things work that have been in place for many, many years.
Honestly, if whomever that is worked for me.....they'd be instantly fired.
Microsoft is so brutal.
I am not sure whoever decide to make the changes understands their customers well and decided on the changes not looking at productivity.
Is there a technical reason you can't switch back to Classic Outlook?
(Nobody can help you if it was a Corporate decision).
I've suggested staff here revert to using the old Outlook. Some old contacts aren't auto-completing in new email messages. Several people are experiencing booking problems in Calendar. The room showing as unavailable here, is in fact, available. These issues are resolved when I use the old Outlook
Yeah, you’re definitely not alone. The account sync issue is especially frustrating. Seeing old email accounts reappear after deleting them years ago feels like a step backward, not an upgrade. And search… honestly, it’s one of the worst parts. Sometimes it just refuses to show sent or received emails until you restart, and even then it’s hit or miss.
I am an old tech guy, not in software anymore but I have to agree. Not just outlook but the entire Windows ecosystem seems to be swirling the bowl. I am switching to Linux on my personal PCs and I will encourage my connections in IT at work to consider the same.
In some respects it's faster than my old Outlook, definetly when starting. And a few things are better.
BUT there is large number of basic(!) functions that I miss and that give me much more productivity. So out with the new and in with the old, until the new version is beyond being an advanced beta version of a program.I look at it and want to walk away. I too adjusted it as best I can.
I don't know what it is, busy? cluttered? hard to read? I just don't like looking at it. Then everytime I switch folders it doesn't remember where I was and I have to hunt for the email I was on.
Lost the email count at the bottom - lost the whole bottom.
I guess when there has been nothing to do with an app for 20 years you just look for things to change.Absolute disaster. Too many issues to list - or recall. Some functionality works one day and not the next. How the software was ever approved for release should be a question addressed at very senior levels of Microsoft. It's barely worth classing as Beta. Many things that worked fine in Classic are either missing or don't work in New. Had I developed and release software of such poor quality I would likely have been sacked.
My company upgraded to Windows 11 and the new Outlook. After having spent a few months with it, I can say it isn't a learning curve issue, this Outlook doesn't work well, it is slow, often not intuitive and can be extremely frustrating. This needs more development work.
My company upgraded to Windows 11 and the new Outlook. After having spent a few months with it, I can say it isn't a learning curve issue, this Outlook doesn't work well, it is slow, often not intuitive and can be extremely frustrating. This needs more development work.
