• ramble81@lemm.ee
    5·
    9 months ago

    The new Outlook looks like a standalone app version of OWA. They’re probably doing that to unify code bases but it’s seriously lacking some features that Outlook had.

    • Can’t open PST files
    • Sort was borked
    • Couldn’t set caching options for Exchange

    And that’s just a few I remember. Though it’s been a good year since I’ve played with it last.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      Can’t put any kind of internal notes on emails.

      Of course no email clients have that. Which is ridiculous.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’ve been using it at work and its fine. Honestly, Outlook has no many strange features that date back a decade or two that have very few users that it makes sense to purge a bunch of them in favor of reducing technical debt

      • moody@lemmings.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        No, no, Microsoft cares about my privacy. I get a daily popup reminding me of this and also asking for me to share my private data with them.

    • FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      I tried the “New Outlook” a few months ago. There was no longer a Save As option for attachments. All attachments were downloaded to the default downloads directory.

      I immediately uninstalled and didn’t look back.

    • RiQuY@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      My company moved from using Gmail to Outlook and I saw it as an opportunity to migrate to Thunderbird/K9-Mail. Best decision I made, it was a bit rough at the beggining because it needed some extension to Sync contacts but it works much faster than the shitty Outlook app/web.

      • Kissaki@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        What do you use to sync contacts?

        I’ve used Thunderbird in the past (some years ago), but eventually switched to Outlook because of contacts and calendar sync and integration IIRC. Integration with extensions was always a hassle and most didn’t really work IIRC.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        That was actually just added in a recent update like a month ago! I’ve started using it a lot at work, but annoyingly you still have to go to the dedicated tasks webapp for full edit capabilities

    • Xanatos@mastodon.gamedev.place
      1·
      9 months ago

      @ramble81 @ElCanut
      It is still super slow and feels limited compared to the old one.

      Rules as example are really bad since it allows only a single action of given type. So to label a mail with different labels I need a rule per label instead of a single one in the previous Outlook version.

    • ares35@kbin.social
      1·
      9 months ago

      they’re just trying to con people into using the new data harvesting mail app by calling it ‘outlook’

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      The big one for me is drag/drop, copy/paste, saving of emails and attachments between Outlook and the rest of Windows/Office is completely borked.

      I have to keep both versions open at work to keep from going completely insane.

    • rinze@infosec.pub
      1·
      9 months ago

      Damn, I was used to work around shitty stuff on Teams. Are you telling me they’re going to push another, different set of bugs on me now?

    • xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      What do you mean? Its easy!

      Teams White and Purple=hotmail

      Teams Purple and White=365 for business

      Teams Lavender (new)=Electron App

      Teams Mauve (with Knuckles)=Teams except you are talking exclusively to Copilot AI

      Teams Royal Purple (360 Edition)= Used by the Kansas City Royals baseball team

      Teams Sky-Blue and White (Me)=Skype for Business

      Teams Periwinkle= Codename for Slack

    • Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
      2·
      9 months ago

      The infuriating thing are the ‘do you want to switch back to old terms?’ messages. Like are you fucking serious what the fuck even is the point of that what the fuck are you even doing with these ‘new’ apps if you’re going to use the same pop ups in both directions basically.

      • mikelykzit@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 months ago

        I think that happens when you launch Teams from Start. But that Teams icon is actually the link to the Old Teams with the New Teams having its own also new but separate icon somewhere else in the Start menu…

        Because Microsoft.

  • DoctorSpocktopus@lemmy.ca
    7·
    9 months ago

    The year is 2056. There are 4^2048 characters required to display all of the “New”s for the latest version of Outlook. You’ve just bricked your fourth PC by trying to open an .ics

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
    10·
    9 months ago

    I use Outlook (new) at work, and I still sometimes look at the icon in the taskbar and think I have new emails because it has a little “new” badge.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      9 months ago

      It’s funny because your new (commercial) outlook and the new (general public) outlook subscribers get from MS is not fully identical.
      M$ wanted me to upload my emails.

  • realitista@lemm.ee
    4·
    9 months ago

    After the downfall of Mail and eMclient simultaneously putting the clamps down, I’m happily rediscovering Thunderbird

  • Matomo@lemmy.ml
    5·
    9 months ago

    And as an added bonus, trying to open this in “Calendar” would show up a blank screen, that closes again, opening again in “Outlook (new)” on Windows 11.

    You’d think Microsoft would get the hang of versioning at this point…

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
    9·
    9 months ago

    It’s still so weird to me that Microsoft - who has their own, now modern, native UI framework for Windows - barely uses it in any of their own applications, instead more and more relying on Electron Edge WebView2, barely following their own design language. Do they even want people to use Windows?