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Have you ever used outlook?
It's the worst, and no, it never works. The company I work at forces outlook on us, still, and there are some 5% of users that can't mail each other. Why? Don't know! I send a mail to a person, outlook logs say it was delivered, it's nowhere to be found. What to do? According to the company, just live with it and creat new accounts from scratch when it happens
We could ask support as the company pays hefty windows license fees but even there it's tucked up as M$ refuses to help directly it needs to go through some support company that wants that we pay them even more no ey separately for the long list of microbugs.
I find it almost hilarious, if I didn't have to work with it myself.
Giving astronauts outlook accounts is just mean
Recently started a new job and for the first time I'm fully emersed in the Microslop software suite. Somehow Outlook and Teams haven't failed critically but I still hate them. Someone emails me a PDF, so I open it. No, I don't want to open PDFs inside Outlook, so I download the PDF. Where is it? Is it on my Onedrive or does the file actually exist on my computer? Does anything exist on my computer?
In my personal life I haven't touched Windows in about 4 months now and I don't want to go back, although I'll probably be booting up Windows 10 because I just downloaded the pre-alpha version of Kitten Space Agency. Planning to try Bazzite soon, we'll see how that goes, I've heard good things.
Outlook is just impressively bad. When I came back to work from the weekend, there was this attack on one of our sites that sent out a notification for each attack it detected and I came to work to 20K new emails.
Ever tried, to delete 20K emails from outlook? Its amazingly stupid! First of all, you can't just bulk select. Search won't help either (Search half the time returns nothing anyways) so you have to kind of select one, scroll 2387942 times down until you are a few thousand mails in. Now, this is important: Click correctly! If you click wrong, all the mails you've selected so far will be unselected again and you have to start over. Press shift, and select a mail. Now you have a few thousand mails selected. Press delete.
And now go for a coffee because you won't be able to use your outlook for the next 30 minutes. You can't open mails, can't refresh the page (you'll get a crash page if you do). Half an hour later, outlook reloads again, and you'll see that it successfully deleted about 80% of your selected mails. The other 20%, I hear you ask? Yeah, those were just not deleted. Why? I don't know? Why are you asking me?!
I would constantly see "There are 6K mails" and then the table where the mail headers are shown shows 7 mails... Load more? Nope, nothing, need to reload the page.
Try copy paste! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccckkk if they don't crash, they will just piss you off.. Now pasting gets you this weirdo paste box. You can't type anymore, there is this stupid paste thing floating, and you need to press ESC to continue.
Half the time I'm writing an email and the text formatting options just disappear, and I can't do any formatting anymore. I can fix this, I just have to get out, to go drafts, reopen the mail I was writing because fuck you, that's why.
How about outlook365? Its awesome and amazing! I write text and I can see bits and pieces of the text I wrote previously just disappear, like its high on Alzheimer. You literally just see parts of paragraphs disappear while you are writing below. Best part of this? Then you change your useragent to say that you're not on linux, but on windows, and the problem magically resolves itself!
Microsoft is the worst software company ever
I swear to God that Word exists to make us feel better about Outlook.
Imagine if microslop used their so called ai bullshit to make outlook search actually fucking work.
Unfortunately yes, can‘t get around it in company for 25 years now and started with 97 so I think I know what I am talking about. Can‘t avoid it in many enterprises though so I feel what you‘ve posted 💯! 😉
My general worries are the quality of Microslops current software quality and the dependency towards it when flying to space while every week there is another thing not working after updates were made. Wouldn‘t like to base my mail communication towards this „stability“ when leaving the planet though. 😐