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Outlook 365 Ribbon, etc
Hello Juan Carlos,
I have exactly the same problem and I can provide you with a screenshot of the hideous new look my Outlook suddenly has.
I am very bothered that I wans't asked about this change / update! I think the design is horrible and it is definitely ruining the whole office 365 experience for me.
How can I undo the changes and go back to the previous UI ? These kind of undates should be optional.
Microsoft is not going to ask every individual user of millions they have. They can gather feedback via feedback dialog, feedback hub type of apps, etc. I think they are already set in stone to go with this redesign. So i doubt you will have an option to use older version (unless HUGE amount of users complain and some big companies). Having to support two UI variants is also not efficient.
You can go to the previous build using this instructions https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2770432/how-to-revert-to-an-earlier-version-of-office-2013-or-office-2016-clic but you will not receive new security updates and other updates this way.
Having a redesign at some point is how tech works. We are not using same websites and programs designed 20 years ago. Everything evolves and changes..
wrootWhat an incredibly arrogant answer. Of course every user should be asked. It's computer software. It can be programmed to display a dialog box asking the user what they want to do, as they do with consenting to access of information, cookies, and many other things besides.
Similarly, in all major software packages there are dialog boxes called "Preferences" and in some, more usefully called "Customization", something which Office used to have and do properly, whereby you had much more fluid control over your own experience. THIS is how tech works. You provide a fluid interface (forget this "Fluent UI" rubbish, it's neither Fluent nor fluid) which the user can customize within a few basic standard parameters.
How is maintaining that inefficient? The user is taking the trouble to do it, give them the option and let them. Don't take the option away. Surely replacing easily customizable interfaces, or ones that either change completely when the user is unaware or not, is an inefficient use of time that could be better spent making the existing functions a bit more resilient and reliable.
- That’s BS.
Office is one of the highest used desktop application suites which means it should be going through extensive user interface testing when that facet of the suite changes. I can’t see the majority of users responding that they like the UI changes.
If the change was to make the icons more scalable, they could have found a solution that didn’t end up with a cartoonish UI.I remember the uproar when Office 2007 and the Ribbon were announced. Now it is a standard. Personally i don't like the new icons either (they look better in youtube advertisements, but not so much live). But i don't think MS cares enough for a few annoyed users. They are set to full redesign (icons, web version, ribbons, etc.).
aaahahahahaha look at this crap**bleep** design hahahahahaha
https://imgur.com/a/4aXm28i
OMG what monkey designed fresh Outlook 365 ahahahahahaha
What's next, we will need 3 monitors 1 above another to read header of the mail?!
