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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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When I purchased a new computer I paid for the Microsoft Office bundle, which brought me this new Outlook fixture. So every time I open Outlook I am confronted with a advert, and am told that I can avoid these if I pay a monthly fee. Sorry - I already paid for the program itself. Otherwise the new Outlook is a mess. Deleted email reappear - one has remained in the deleted folder for two months and probably never will disappear. There apparently is no junk filter at all and everything comes through. I could go on - but what's the use.
Maybe https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/install-or-reinstall-classic-outlook-on-a-windows-pc-5c94902b-31a5-4274-abb0-b07f4661edf5 can help.
Yes I absolutely hate it and I’m wonder when it’s going to be fixed??? It’s so slow 😭
I imported a couple of pst folders so I could access my e-mail records which is critical for my business. Opening them basically locks Outlook up so I cannot access years and years of stored records.
Completely stupid
This is so frustrating. It is time for other providers to step up. None of these major tech companies actually give a hoot about what user's want. I have been using Outlook since it was first released. My experience is that it really became great over time, then it peaked and now is in a downward spiral. What we really need is new blood and serious competition. I use both Windows and Mac. Apple Mail is nothing to write home about either.
Worst major application I have ever used. How can they roll out something so bad to a global set of users? Did not one actual end user test it? It's atrocious for mail, calendar, tasks, and everything else someone typically might use Outlook for.
they are determined to make changes for the sake of change. Clearly, the newer crop of programmers and managers at microsoft are increasingly incompetent. Microsoft products just continue to deteriorate. Once an alternative is available, I would drop microsoft like a lead balloon.
This is the WORST application I have ever used. Important emails get "locked up." You learn later that they were never sent and have to search to find them.
The app is clunky.... not at all user friendly.
Adjustments to old versions were clearly made and installed without fully testing it. I will be searching for an alternative.
Clunky, glitchy, awkward....does not have the professional look and/or feel of the classic version. Currently, there is a toggle to switch back and forth between classic and new, Lord please don't ever let it go. On top of the injury I am being insulted: when the calendar in classic mode is displays blank for me. So have to toggle to the horrible new version for the calendar and then toggle back to classic for or mail. No one can figure out what is doing this . Productivity loss.....thank you Microsoft for attempting to reinvent the wheel.
They have made their customers fight to try to get what they already had, to try to make keep working what already worked.
It was chaotic, illogical, full of rules that couldn't be interpreted without the help of an engineer, the product of hands and more hands touching, creating and changing, but it worked — more or less — and it was powerful.
In this alternative dimension in which they want us to live, instead of having something and trying to improve it, Microsoft believes that the solution to this is to remove features. It doesn't matter if you paid for them.
In case you are interested:
- Here is a list of Classic Outlook vs New Outlook features based on status: Available, Coming Soon, Investigating, and Unsupported. It is updated monthly.
👉Download Outlook For Windows Feature Availability Summary » TRACCreations4E - Also, I interviewed Microsoft's Outlook Product Manager and asked questions, such as:
Is the New Outlook just a wrapper for the web version?
Why didn’t Microsoft recreate Classic Outlook from scratch?
Why do users feel FORCED to switch to the New Outlook app?
When will New Outlook meet the needs of power users?
How is Microsoft encouraging VBA developers to stay ahead?
👉Video Microsoft's responses: https://youtu.be/5WYjmzrOZI8?si=TWGkmR-Crdt1uuhh
#traccreations-r25
Looked like a good interview, but sorry, I couldn't make it past the first few minutes where she said it's not a wrapper, we're just making everything as useless as web version. Consistently crap across all platforms.
Microsoft has never understood their users and frankly just lucky Bill started the company when he did, when there was no competition and they were able to cement themselves in as the monolithic behemoth that they are now. Move fast and break things worked in the pioneering days, now it just means crappy, rushed software and bugs galore.
A few examples of this: Windows 11 Pro is an advertising machine. Balmer tried to put a tablet interface on servers (we needed third-party software for the Start button >.< ). The many woes of NEW Outlook. Removing the Teams tab from... ah, Teams. And finally, constantly RENAMING EVERYTHING. These are just a few of the many examples, when really, we just want functional efficiency. You know, so we can do our jobs. I'm just not so sure Microsoft can deliver that anymore.
- Here is a list of Classic Outlook vs New Outlook features based on status: Available, Coming Soon, Investigating, and Unsupported. It is updated monthly.
I interviewed New Outlook's Product Manager and asked some tough questions, such as, "Why is New Outlook This Way?"
In case you are interested, Microsoft's response.
Video: https://youtu.be/5WYjmzrOZI8?si=freWHRKW6o0rKSVy
