Outlook (new)(1)_final(Copy)
I’m waiting for Outlook (Taylor’s Version).
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.
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.
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.
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?
They finally accepted the web as the platform after all these years…
Edge WebView2
I’m like 90% sure this requires edge to be installed, even though the EU mandated that they make edge uninstallable. So that might be their game here.
You can install WebView2 separately without the Edge GUI actually.
Outlook (the one that uploads your email login password to microsoft, and which markets this as a feature)
The only reason I ever even tried “Outlook (new)” was because the old Microsoft “Mail” app was trash (the piece of shit wouldn’t even let me send plain text email). I immediately lost interest as soon as I realized there was a bunch of 365 shit bundled into it that I couldn’t disable.
Same shit with Teams.
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
