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Re: "New" Outlook is not great
Microsoft, that experience maker. Those shoehorned “experiences” that intend to dictate “how we work today”. Apparently, Microsoft wants us to work like newbies because it thinks we're not worth much more. It should open a toy shop and leave the software market.158Views0likes0CommentsRe: New Outlook
My rules were server rules. And the Microsoft technicians who dealt with my case knew less than I do. And it seems they didn't know how to escalate the issue either. Thanks, Lisa. Don't worry about it. Fortunately, Outlook deals with objects and protocols that are subject to standards supported by many other manufacturers. I've already found another solution.78Views1like0CommentsRe: Anyone else hate the New Desktop Outlook?.
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.889Views1like0CommentsUseability
I want to replace one style with another. But when I go to do it, the "Find Style" list is out of order, and I have to waste time going through the whole list looking for it. When I try to choose the new style, the "Replace With Style" is out of order, and I have to waste time again, looking for one of Word's handy styles. To make things even more fun, the tiny little windows I just mentioned, like so maaaany others, are not resizeable. Little windows that must display dozens of styles, tiny as postage stamps since I fell victim to Word. Forever and ever, Amen. Then I have to refresh the source of some OLE links. But the option is not in the menus, which since I am a victim of Word dance and dance, as if the party lasted for ever and ever, Amen. I suppose an organisation as big as yours has a Customer Life Impossibility Design department, staffed, I'm sure, by hundreds of thinking heads, straight out of some very dark, dank, screaming, echoing place.437Views0likes1CommentRe: New Outlook
That is another feature that has been cut back, as if being able to make a system to, for example, automatically process automated notification and warning emails was a trivial, unimportant matter. I repeat: if we want silly little applications to send us photos of the last holiday, there are dozens of free systems, so why throw money away on Microsoft.984Views0likes0CommentsRe: New Outlook
Tessa_van_Roekel We are not Office users, however much they like to call us this way. We are Microsoft customers. We are not 2 years old; we are of legal age, and after evaluating a product, we pay for it and use it. And we would never expect the manufacturer to come and take half of what they bought from us. As a customer I don't have to explain why I WANT certain features I paid for. I paid for them because I valued them. And now MS has unilaterally decided to remove them. This is beyond the pale. And if you don't understand my annoyance, maybe you're being a bit ingenuous. I don't have to justify or argue my needs or preferences to a vendor, trying to convince them that I bought a Rolls Royce and now they shouldn't trade me for a Hyundai. I have already repeated myself too much, and I have already clearly explained everything I intended. If there are more people willing to lecture me on how to treat a supplier, they can save themselves the trouble of explaining their vision of life to me. Regards.1.7KViews2likes0CommentsNew Outlook
Hello. I will be clear and straightforward: As your customer, if I pay for your applications, it is because they offer me certain services, which are the elements that differentiate you from your competitors. This case of the New Outlook is a good example. If I wanted a simple webmail, I would use your competitors. Most of them offer almost the same as this lame Outlook you're going to foist on us, and they're free. That said: I want MY VIEWS I want MY RULES (which have NEVER appeared in your OWA). I want to MANAGE MY OWN PSTs, put them wherever I want and manage them myself. In short, I want the features I decided to pay you for. In the end, I know, I will be forced to use this at work (well, we'll see what I can do to avoid it), but at home, if you force me to switch to this, you can say goodbye to me as a customer. Greetings.2.4KViews3likes11Comments
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