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Updated Jul 03, 2024
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If we aren’t getting a discount on our license, why are we getting discounted webcode for our desktop applications?
I can’t believe that a non-native application made in React that tastes like Web is what Microsoft thought paying customers are looking for.
Think about it like this. Soon M365 will be down to Excel and PowerBI. Don’t ever make those web based applications like New Outlook and Teams. Because what value will you have to peddle then? New Outlook is beyond terrible. And I’m sorry but I’ve never used an JS and Webcode based app that didn’t look and feel like one. It doesn’t have native performance. It doesn’t have the shorter (IMO) better keyboard shortcuts, and most of the side rail “features” load webpages. No one wants that from something that should be native.
And New Outlook looks like mail.office365.com in a floating box. Webmail looks like webmail. It’s ugly. It doesn’t look like it was ever intended for the desktop and the UI is wasteful. That stupid left side rail will never get moved back to the bottom where it shifts the mail app between mail, calendar, and contact. Short and concise.
If we aren’t getting a discount on our license, why are we getting discounted webcode for our desktop applications?
Its a crappy and lazy move from a $2T company, so it’s worth repeating.