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Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)

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Re: Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)

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They've recently renamed Outlook to Outlook (classic). So you can see which way the wind is blowing on this. Outlook (new) is still missing tons of big features and the UI sucks.

Outlook new is missing one fundamental feature which is automation. This blob of html can not be programmed unlike predecessors for more 15 years.

It is so easy to instantiate and use old outlook that I really fail to understand what is their endgame with this killing of a top and well respected product.

Re: Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)

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Meanwhile, Thunderbird is rolling out MS Exchange capability by v130 (which I am hoping must be very soon)

Thunderbird seems to run everything in a single thread, something I only noticed when I tried to sync some large mailing list folders and the UI basically became unusable. I was really hoping to switch to it before this cropped up.

Re: Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)

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post #18

They've recently renamed Outlook to Outlook (classic). So you can see which way the wind is blowing on this. Outlook (new) is still missing tons of big features and the UI sucks.

Not to mention the rather consistent crashing. I see it across multiple systems which makes me wonder if the developers even use it themselves.

Re: Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)

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post #21
post #18

They've recently renamed Outlook to Outlook (classic). So you can see which way the wind is blowing on this. Outlook (new) is still missing tons of big features and the UI sucks.

Outlook new is missing one fundamental feature which is automation. This blob of html can not be programmed unlike predecessors for more 15 years. It is so easy to instantiate and use old outlook that I really fail to understand what is their endgame with this killing of a top and well respected product.

I switched to doing most of the automation in power automate

This of course only works with exchange afaik, but why else would I use outlook.

Re: Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)

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post #17

Break them up. We need revised antitrust laws.

I think yes, and it really boils down to role separation. For everything. An example being cable companies. They should have no capability to own TV stations, media creators, news companies, the list goes on. Backbone is backbone, be it an internet connection, or a TV/video feed. Back to Microsoft you can make an OS, or you can make apps, but not both. An OS being a 'backbone'. Applies to Google. "Search" vs "Ads". B…

How would you suggest splitting up a heavily vertically integrated company, like eg Apple?

Does Google search become a paid subscription product in your vision of separation of search vs ads?

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