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New Outlook pretends to support RSS, but there's no way to trigger an update. You read your feeds on Microsoft's schedule or not at all.

The calendar view can't be configured to fit a full 24 hour day and you have to scroll.

Important emails from contacts I had for years flagged as spam.

My inbox view gets messed up every now and then and I have to keep resetting it.

Bullshit left click for spell check now... constantly trying to think for me and distracting me with endless USELESS popups, no spell check in the subject like. It's awful

When you try to change views in a shared calendar, and it automatically switches to your personal calendar in the other view, causing you to go back to the first view, change calendars, then do the exact same thing again.

Every. Damn. Time.

Also cached exchange mode is a disaster...

Like 2 years ago the search was really good. I'm always using referencing or updating all documents. So being able to find them quickly is a huge help in my day to day.

The search bar used to work almost instantly and find anything matching the title or even content in any document I wanted. Now even typing in the exact title doesn't pull up the document I'm looking for half the type.

Every once in a while it just decides it's going to completely change the layout, and there's no simple way to get it back to how it was.

One thing that I hate about it is, if a notification pops up and you are on a different screen or in a different app, when you mouse over the notification to click it to go away, rather than sending the notification away, it sends it to the background and brings outlook to the front.

So you then have to minimize outlook or move it out of the way to get to the notification screen to close the notification screen.

Also it continuously disables extensions because it's so fucking prioritized on minimizing boot-up time that it does not give a single fuck about how much extra time you have to waste re-enabling the goddamn extensions that you need in order to do your job.

We're paying good money for these extensions.

We want them.

We don't care about 1.3 fucking seconds of time it takes for Outlook to start up as long as we have the functionality, and Microsoft's Outlook keeps disabling them.

If this were a single computer, it would be a hassle. But this is company-wide, having to constantly train and go over how to re-enable the extensions that we need to keep enabled in order for our employees to do their fucking job that we're paying Microsoft $25 a month per person for.

or how about how Microsoft forces, Microsoft accounts to be created, but won't allow Microsoft accounts to be created using organization credentials.

But then it goes behind your back and creates a Microsoft account for every single organization credential.

And then it hides that from you inside of Edge so that you first have to remove the organization credential from Edge and then do a search and then remove the organization credential from being inside of Edge just to stop Edge from having an organization credential that it uses to track every single user in your organization and every single thing that they do.

So yeah, fuck Microsoft.

Adding a group. You can now only add one email address at a time. Got a group of 100? Best clear your afternoon.

It's made by raccoons that live in a PCP factory dumpster. Also why the fuck do we need 4 different teams applications

Fuck Microsoft.

Not being able to unpin email chains unless you change it to non-threaded replies, select all, unpin, then go back to threaded replies like a civilized lifeform. Otherwise it just repins the chain when it refreshes.

Our office also uses teams phones which still don't have a way to show missed calls. We literally cannot call people back if we don't get to the med room phone in time.

Setting up calendar events with reminders that never happen. At some point, they just stopped working for me.

The new version written in JavaScript and spite. Everything about that.

Jesus. Basically everything about it. We use the web client at work, so might be a different set of annoyances.
deep breath I use slashes in 70% of the e-mails I write as the punctuation mark that they are - I have never and will never want it to start randomly guessing what files I want to attach to the e-mail when I type a slash.
I actually didn't hate that if you typed something like "23rd" it would make the rd super-script - until the day it started doing it so incredibly wrong that it would super-script the '3' and the 'r' and change the 'd' to a 'th' so it read "2^3r^th".
Several times per day it will show a folder name in bold with a number in parenthesis telling me I have new messages in that folder, but when I click on the folder it highlights nothing as new messages, so I have to just remember what the last message I actually read was. Search sucks. Rarely can I open attachments. I told a coworker just yesterday that if they want to keep something secret from me, their best bet is to put the secret in an e-mail attachment and e-mail it to me.

When you have the calendar open it refreshes and blinks while it does that, like every 15 minutes. This never happened with 2016

And people pay through the nose for that crap?

There's a keyboard shortcut to send an email.

I resend a lot of email. Reply all, update subject, screenshots etc. A few seconds after you reply all, above the to field you start getting status updates. You're not replying to the latest email. This will be sent to xx people etc. It shifts all the fields down, so my click into the subject to remove the RE: is now editing the cc field instead.

When I click in the search-box in the titlebar, Outlook freezes for about 5 seconds.

You can't cut and paste an appointment.

I tried making a template the other day. I was successful, but it's multiple clicks whenever I want to use it. There's no way to customize the ribbon and add a button to use my new template.

Are we talking about Outlook or "New Outlook"? Everyone that I've heard that switch to new Outlook has had nothing but pain that you can't "do the thing" you used to any more. Like "Meeting with All".

At work we constantly have issues requiring the need to recreate the Ms outlook profile. We made a script for deleting and adding back the ocp or whatever it's called

I have two instances open for two different inboxes and try to pull one up on the taskbar, the wrong instance will pull up every single time without fail.

That sounds like how everyone always guesses wrong which way to plug in USB, not a specific problem with outlook.

Labels should be the default but UI designers on all platforms only care about appearance. Googling says you can change the taskbar to not combine instances and show labels. That way you always know what you are clicking.

On the new Outlook, clicking on emails that pop up opens them... in the background. Insane design choice

For some reason, opening attachments is a lot more painful that it needs to be in open emails.

Maybe there is an option to remove "open file in browser" but if there is I haven't found it. Awful, awful design