• @ramble81@lemm.ee
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    4 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.

      • @moody@lemmings.world
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        234 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
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      154 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.

    • ares35
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      134 months ago

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

    • RiQuY
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      4 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.

    • @dmention7@lemm.ee
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      84 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.

    • @Manalith@midwest.social
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      74 months ago

      (New) disabled all my inbox rules and since you can’t create new rules in the OWA irom what I could see, there was basically no management. Glad I moved my personal stuff to Proton before they kill the standard Outlook app entirely

      • @Nithanim@programming.dev
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        14 months ago

        I am currently using the new outlook desktop version and there are rules. However, they seem to have cut “local only” stuff. I suspect that they moved the execution server side.

    • @realitista@lemm.ee
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      34 months ago

      Tasks are missing completely not to speak of all of the advanced task management functions of old outlook.

      • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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        24 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

    • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      24 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