Mail & Calendar Apps Will Be Replaced with New Outlook for Windows December 2024

Teresa_Cyrus 
I am frustrated with this new Outlook. It appears to have removed key syncing with Gmail features so that even folders have disappeared. I have used Microsoft Outlook for more than two decades. This new version is the first time it doesn't make logical sense to me. I have to use Gmail because of my work, and was able to transparently sync with Gmail previously (I personally do not like how Gmail works after having the immense flexibility with previous versions of Outlook for so long). Outlook was clean and more logical to use; there was no long thread attached to each email and/or you could delete the thread if you did not want it to be included in the new email, the email addresses were more contiguous rather than the isolated boxes of Gmail which make little sense and are challenging to manipulate, and there were more features for composing emails, and I could go on. Now this new version of Outlook has made a once easiy to communicate option so very difficult; a fixed reading pane that cannot be narrowed being one of a number of bad changes. Increasingly, I am having to flip back and forth with Gmail because the previous features in Outlook that supported such syncing have failed. The clean look of previous versions of Outlook made business communication more professional looking and archive-worthy. This new version - not so much. What is a long-time Outlook user to do with these abstract changes and deviations? I add my voice to the growing number of persons who have been stymied by Microsoft's extreme changes to its products in an attempt to make them more 'sleek' and appealing. They are not, sadly. They are not.

Thank you for the opportunity to share this feedback.

-Jo Mimms-Bolden, Outlook user and Microsoft subscriber for more than two decades (both on the job or a personal subscriber)