Microsoft force-upgrades Mail app to Windows 11’s new Outlook web app
Microsoft force-upgrades Mail app to Windows 11’s new Outlook web app
This'll be great at the business level: do you use Outlook, or Outlook?
Kind of like Teams: do you use Teams, Teams (New) or Teams (Home)?
Microsoft: failing at branding since 1992.
To be fair, classic Teams is being killed in 10 days.
To be even fairer, there was no need for New Teams apart from Microsoft's increasing desire to make everything a fucking web app.
Wasn’t classic Teams already a web app?
The last time I used 'new' teams I had serious issues with video, as in the video stream would keep wiggling 1 pixel left and right, really nauseating! 🤢
"I'm new to this Teams thing, but I'm now WFH so, yes."
Funny, I migrated back to the old faithful, Thunderbird.
Go fuck yourself Microsoft.
EDIT: To be fair to Microsoft, they did warn people this was gonna happen like a year ago. Still stupid.
The mail app ws perfect, it was so perfect.
Thunderbird or thebnew outlook app dont compare.
It was pretty good, but it was hell to troubleshoot.
I've had to set up IMAP on that app a whole bunch of times and if it decides it doesn't like your server, it'll grey out all the settings and show an infinite progress bar that does literally nothing, for up to minutes at a time. Settings that worked yesterday may suddenly be broken. The manual refresh button is more of a suggestion than anything else.
I don't expect Microsoft's new "give us your password and we'll download your email to our cloud, you can trust us" solution to work any better, though. These "apps" make me miss Windows Live Mail and its predecessor, Outlook Express.
Don’t know about perfect, but it was simple and wasn’t bloated like Outlook or Thunderbird. For someone who just needed to send and receive emails, nothing else, it was nice.
There are two outlooks on my Windows machine now. Outlook and (new) Outlook.
Get your shit together, ms
Great that'll go really well with teams, teams classic, and teams work and school.
There is already teams (new)
I've recently got my hands on a laptop with 3 different versions of Teams. And broken updates...
TPM on my motherboard is forever disabled and I’m going down with the Windows 10 ship. Another couple years and Proton will be even better than it already is.
TPM on my motherboard is forever disabled
Assuming that's a choice and not a hardward limitation, why?
It'll prevent windows 11 from installing
Windows 11 won't install if it can't find a TPM chip, so disabling it means you won't get stealth-upgraded to 11 when you're least expecting it.
TPM on my motherboard is forever disabled
If that's just to stop W11 that's stupid. TPM chips are security related. Disabling them has some serious drawbacks.
Now there are discussion on if you'd even want a TPM chip or not, and if you choose not to use it for such reasons it may be a well thought out decision. Then you won't hear me complain. But to trow out security components just to prevent an update, without looking at the possible consequences, is stupid. There are better ways to prevent that anyways.
Reminds me on how they forcefully started slowly upgrading everyone to the new Teams app, that doesn't support half of what the previous one did. For example, the company I work at actually used the "Wiki" on Teams to create very long and detailed (many hours of work) important documentation for projects. It was not my choice, but it was how the company decided to work. Well the new Teams app killed the Wiki. We lost access to a lot of documentation and the managers took a long ass time to understand our problem and only did when their own Teams also updated. We had to revert back to the old teams and constantly click ignore on the upgrade notification, while at times mistakenly clicking accept and having to revert back again, until we copied everything out of Wiki and to another platform entirely. We lost a lot of (paid) hours to just copy and reformat the whole wiki from many projects into a new platform. All this were paid hours, and money that didn't need to be wasted if it wasn't for Microsoft complete retardness. This together with other retard moves on other office apps is slowly convincing my company to completely get out of the Office 365 for Enterprise, including Azure and other stuff just because Microsoft is really getting on our nerves lately.
I don't understand how can Microsoft do so much shit and still be so widely used and so many companies absolutely depend on Microsoft. If Microsoft sneezes, half of the IT world shakes. But those who suffer just keep paying anyway. Are we all clowns?
I'm a sysadmin and these days a good third of my job is apologizing to end users for the stupid shit Microsoft does that I have no control over. Managing Microsoft products is like having a bunch of ticking time bombs that you have to juggle while everyone yells at you.
Sometimes I feel like the managers of my company and many others companies like these are just a bunch of clowns, that keep getting fcked my MS but keep paying them Enterprise licenses that are sometimes thousands of $$ per month. If a service costs thousands per month, it shouldn't be stressful to use and give so much headaches... I just think some CEOs don't know that a company can function (sometimes better) without Microsoft products. From Office to Windows to Azure, many companies nowadays think they can only function if they pay Microsoft. And MS knows and likes this.
Don’t confuse Microsoft’s malice and greed for retardation.
Uhh, wtf?
The new app isn't finished, there's no way to refresh mailboxes and RSS feeds other than restarting it.
How on earth did they decide this was good enough?
I had a nice one today. I saved an email for archiving for all to see ( you know, as a .msg) and tried to open it. Windows asked if I would like to open it with Outlook (new). Sure, I thought, only to be greeted by the message "sorry, this function is not supported".
Why do you do this to me Microsoft?! Why?!
New Outlook is a web app in disguise and unlikely to full support local files like that. It doesn't even support .PST.
Microsoft doesn't want you managing email on the computer anymore, they want you to only be thinking about it as an aspect of the cloud.
Microsoft is fully on the Agile development bandwagon. Users are officially code testers, whether they want to be or not.
It's the Silicon Valley equivalent of Hollywood's "we'll fix it in post."
At work on Monday I opened the full Outlook app and then the shitty new Outlook Web App also force opens. And the new app really is shit - for example I'd set up a whole bunch of folders with contacts in and shared them with other users; in the Web App those folders are entirely empty. Forcing people to migrate to a worse version of their platform. Fuck microsoft.
I have 365 Outlook installed on my home PC for the rare times I work from home, but I barely use Windows anymore and if needed I'll just remove Outlook rather than put up with this nonsense.
Forcing people to migrate to a worse version of their platform.
A worse version they're paying for.
Thankfully Microsoft said they're supporting classic Outlook through 2029. Otherwise pushing New Outlook as it exists now, without reducing the license price accordingly, would be almost straight up robbery.
But I have a sneaking suspicion that in the years to come they're going to start removing access to classic Outlook from more of the 365 licensing options. You already can't use it on F3 and some others, eventually they'll pull it from everything expect the higher tiers as a way of forcing companies to move.
And you can bet your ass they'll warn them sternly about 3rd party mail clients. Those "security risks" will keep them from seeking any alternatives, even if they're completely safe.
I really hope that this might finally push more development of open source desktop email clients.
Thunderbird is just... messy. Too many "I like to tinker more than I like my software to work" options, and a good bunch of features I would expect standard in an email client as old as it that simply aren't there. I don't want to have to pick between 6 competing addons for the same basic functionality.
Too many "I like to tinker more than I like my software to work" options
I fail to see how this is a problem. What are you suggesting here? Eliminate all those options so it looks nicer?
Legitimately, what makes New Outlook so fucking awful is that they did exactly this. They cut out half of the actual usability, options, and functionality of Outlook to make a "clean, lightweight experience". And it's objectively terrible as a replacement.
This sentiment that software needs to get dumber because people can't stand having to look at a bunch of options can seriously die in a fire.
Having the tinkerer options should come after making the software work. From my perspective, Thunderbird is a passable clone of a bad mail client. None of its tweakable options turn it into a good mail client, and so it would be a better mail client than it is had the effort spent on implementing the tweakable options instead been invested into making it generally better.
I like new Supernova layout. But, if you prefer classic layout you can try betterbird
This is the price you pay for "upgrading" to W11. Sorry to anyone who has to use this shit.
It affects Windows 10, too.
Sucks. This is why I refuse to update anything for as long as possible, to avoid all this type of shit.
Lol. Never change, micro$oft.
Never change.
Every time I read about how M$ behaves and how users just put up with it, I have to laugh.
You mean, to the outlook that uploads the passwords and login details of all your mailboxes to microsoft?
The problem I have is not with the Outlook app, but with how much data the Outlook app collects from your emails. I cna assume the outlook.com email (my junk email lol) is thoroughly rifled through, but I don't want my other emails to contribute to that.
Back to Thunderbird, I guess.
And while we're at it, please default newest at the top, Thunderbird!