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Why office outlook 365 and outlook mail sucks terribly and worst emails in the whole wide world?
Cynthia49 Hi Cynthia-this email is the WORST ever in a series that seem to progressively decline. It is as if the design thereof was given to the first year students and apprentices to start learning some basic skills but to also be given free rein to produce the most complicated, messy, inconsistent email on the planet. Tasks that were simple and consistent in earlier versions are now ridiculously complicated with minefields everywhere. Literally dozens of inexplicable operating changes. Try searching for a group of emails to place in a folder!! In early version simply highlight the first and last entries and drag them across to the required folder! Good luck!!!!! I won't bore you with dozens of other issues but my feeling about this whole mess is that it simply shows how Microsoft holds its captive users in utter contempt
deejinozyou may be correct. I have to use the cloud version of Office 365, as I use Linux as my desktop. Linux apps work fine for most purposes, but sometimes clients send me documents full of non-standard, Microsoft-specific elements, and I have no choice but to use a Microsoft Office 365 for the Web. But, if they're trying to push us towards the cloud-based versions, why are they so completely crap? There are features missing, or which are slow, or don't work properly at all. If they're trying to encourage me, they're going about it in a peculiar way.
- I think the general modern tech movement is to have one app to do all the things. I've noticed Android also tries to use it's email client as a web browser when opening links in email. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems that one tool designed to be all the tools wouldn't perform well at any task but suck equally for all uses. If everyone's heads are in the cloud maybe they wont notice.
- They don't want to make the functionality in the Web version too good otherwise it'll start to undermine the sales of their desktop apps. They want to milk as much value from a slow transition as they possibly can. This is why the web version covers only the bare minimum functionality to make them viable then they have some nice, cool features, that are not available on the desktop version. This means people will still be prepared to get the better functionality of the desktop app and accept they will need to log into the web version to access any of the web specific functions. I think Microsoft will only look at making the Office productivity suite obsolete, as a desktop app once they're happy most people are spending more of their time in their web apps (such as Teams, SharePoint and the plethora of other web apps) anyhow.
Thanks Deejinoz and others. Microsoft haven't addressed any of the issues and are unlikely to do so now. Let us hope the next version makes more sense!
Regards from South Africa.
