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ardi60 ( ardi60@reddthat.com )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

Microsoft force-upgrades Mail app to Windows 11’s new Outlook web app

www.windowslatest.com

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Microsoft force-upgrades Mail app to Windows 11’s new Outlook web app

www.windowslatest.com

ardi60 ( ardi60@reddthat.com )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago
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  • Snot Flickerman ( SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    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.

  • psvrh ( psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 
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    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.

    • JohnEdwa ( JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      “I’m new to this Teams thing, but I’m now WFH so, yes.”

  • Guy Ingonito ( kandoh@reddthat.com ) 
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    There are two outlooks on my Windows machine now. Outlook and (new) Outlook.

    Get your shit together, ms

    • OhNoMoreLemmy ( OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Great that’ll go really well with teams, teams classic, and teams work and school.

      • B0rax ( B0rax@feddit.de ) 
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        There is already teams (new)

  • Shouted ( Shouted@programming.dev ) 
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    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.

    • wizardbeard ( wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      TPM on my motherboard is forever disabled

      Assuming that’s a choice and not a hardward limitation, why?

      • Onihikage ( Onihikage@beehaw.org ) 
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        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.

    • Cambionn ( cambionn@feddit.nl ) 
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      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.

  • knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) 
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    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?

    • speeding_slug ( speeding_slug@feddit.nl ) 
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      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?!

    • Snot Flickerman ( SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      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.”

  • wizardbeard ( wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    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.

    • ardi60 ( ardi60@reddthat.com ) OP
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      I like new Supernova layout. But, if you prefer classic layout you can try betterbird

  • warm ( warm@kbin.earth ) 
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    This is the price you pay for “upgrading” to W11. Sorry to anyone who has to use this shit.

  • ReversalHatchery ( ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) 
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    You mean, to the outlook that uploads the passwords and login details of all your mailboxes to microsoft?

  • onlinepersona ( onlinepersona@programming.dev ) 
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    Every time I read about how M$ behaves and how users just put up with it, I have to laugh.

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