• namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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    Don’t worry everyone, I’m here to help:

    Mail

    Garbage

    Outlook

    Hot Garbage

    Outlook (new)

    Shit-tier garbage

    Glad to be of service! Until next time…

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    “please use our spyware so we can syphon more of your personal info to get more quarterly profit… We are begging you. See how many apps we have for mail?”

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      New outlook is less functional but much better UI design (it’s just outlook web access after all). Outlook hasn’t changed in forever because so many corporate high ups use it and think they know how it works. They always respond to emails that are already answered because they didn’t see the newer reply in their inbox. I suspect this resistance is why it’s a totally separate program to the old outlook. Yes, there are settings to group threads in outlook, but the interface is still pretty unintuitive and the vast majority of these users don’t change their default settings anyway. In my experience the terrible defaults create more problems than outlook solves. And the server syncing can be really slow at times. Personally, I’m very happy that MS is finally showing some interest to modernize outlook, the more people who use it the easier my job will get.

      Also ya the name is stupid. Teams (New) gets me the most. Idk who possibly thought this naming scheme was a good idea.

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    It’s even funnier when something like this happens to me and our IT guy goes I don’t remember installing that version…

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      Probably didn’t, it’s microsofts dumb roll out of their updated with functionality removed deployment

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          That’s because the new one is just the existing web app that loads inside an Edge instance so they were basically starting from scratch. I realized that when I discovered I couldn’t open the new version on my laptop that I had uninstalled Edge from.

          Oh, and MS is killing the old version. Joy.

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    We still use on-prem Exchange with Microsoft Office at work, and it’s really becoming a problem. Microsoft already auto adds shortcuts for 365 (which we don’t use and doesn’t work with our setup), and the “Mail” app (which also doesn’t work with out setup), and now I have to explain to people to use the regularly titled Outlook icon and not the “Outlook (new)” icon (which again, won’t work with our setup).

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          GPOs seldom break just like that.

          Local policies are possibly more volatile but not GPOs

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            You’ve missed the point; group policies are being ignored and break with every other update as Microsofts cadence and quality assurance continues to enshitify.

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    Stop calling out my commit messages… I swear “fixed bug x (for real this time)(ok now it should be fixed) added feature y” is a valid commit message scheme.

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    This is such a perfect demonstration of how useless Microsoft’s ecosystem is. It’s better than being forced to work in an Apple exclusive environment but “we’re a windows shop” is one of the biggest red flags an employer can have.

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      It now can but not always. Still easier to point the default app to old outlook.

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        An email client that can’t open email files? Hmmmmmm.

        Is this something to do with the fact it’s routing all emails via Microsoft servers?

        I am not a developer

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    Microsoft having 4 tabs for howtos depending on outlook version sums this up lol