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New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft

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Re: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft

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Post by CommieBobDole »

jonplackett wrote: post #8

Why do they get passwords by viewing your mailbox

The new Outlook is just an Electron-style interface to a Microsoft webmail app - it's not an email client anymore. So if you want to get email from other providers, you give your credentials to the MS web app and it downloads and stores them on Microsoft's servers.

It's not particularly different from other web email apps, the issue is Microsoft is changing models from email client to web app and they're not being very upfront about it.

Re: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft

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Post by jonplackett »

gpvos wrote: post #9
jonplackett wrote: post #8

Why do they get passwords by viewing your mailbox

They get the password for your mailbox, and store it on their server (instead of locally on your own computer like with a local Outlook installation).

Ah I see. The way it was written seemed like they're getting all the stored passwords. That makes more sense.

Re: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft

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Post by joahua »

mrweasel wrote: post #7
what-no-tests wrote: post #4

The real question is: why are you using Outlook?

There isn't honestly that many email clients left. What do you suggest they use, Thunderbird,.. and what, The Bat? Outlook comes with Windows, it works. What in some sense has me worried is that even Microsoft doesn't really care about native applications anymore. It's rather hard to take a software company serious, when they don't even want to develop to their own native API. The whole thing is primarily a result of…

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Re: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

what-no-tests wrote: post #4

The real question is: why are you using Outlook?

For the same reason I use Teams, it's what my workplace pretty much forces me to use.

There were workarounds to redirect the mail to Gmail and manage everything from there instead, but they cracked down on them one after another. The last time I didn't manage to avoid it, so now I'm stuck with that piece of crap.

Re: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft

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Post by autoexec »

It's insane that companies continue to trust Microsoft. They've been collecting data on every company's email and office documents for ages. They must have a massive amount of insight into the inner workings, goals, and plans of so many companies across so many industries that it's a wonder how MS itself is so poorly run.

Re: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft

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Post by ranting-moth »

msp26 wrote: post #10

Also, why's there a fucking ad on my emails list? What was wrong with the old mail program? It worked fine.

> What was wrong with the old mail program?

Depends on who you ask. I guess "there were no ads on it" is an applicable answer from MS point of view.

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