Updated Outlook on the Web is Coming To Office 365 Customers Starting This Month (windowscentral.com) 81
An updated Outlook on the web is rolling out to Office 365 customers starting this month. From a report: Microsoft has been testing the new Outlook on the web since last year. Users have been able to opt to use the new version for the past eight months. Now, Microsoft is taking the new Outlook on the web out of testing and rolling it out to Office 365 customers. The new Outlook for the web will look familiar to those that use the new Outlook.com. But there are several features that are available on Outlook for the web to Office 365 customers. The majority of these features center on productivity such as jumping into meetings from peek view. Outlook for the web gains new visual enhancements, including a dark mode and expressions to help you communicate on the web. It also features several features to streamline time management, including searching across multiple calendars, quickly creating events, and viewing upcoming events in month view.
Nah! Pass! (Score:4, Insightful)
Still a stupid, useless waste of screen real-estate Always has been. Always will be.
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The reason it's "the" standard isn't because of any virtue on Outlook's part.
So much for your ad populum.
It's because of Exchange. Plain and simple.
As a mail client or PIM, Outlook is a gigantic mess.
And the fact that the client blobs everything into a single massive data file is just a support nightmare.
WYSIWYG (Score:1)
It could feature What You See Is What You Get for mail composing.
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Sweet past. I am forced to use webmail, now that corporation moved to 2FA, with webish Outlook not obeying my preference of plaintext anymore. Recipients are flattered by the messages they get, want to get rid of me altogether. No thanks so far, Microsoft.
It's an Outlook thread on Slashdot! (Score:5, Funny)
My predictions for this discussion:
* Someone who hasn't used Outlook since 1997 complaining about macro viruses
* Old Unix greybeard muttering something about winmail.dat and how he can't read rich text emails in elm.
* Someone boasting that they block all email traffic originating with Outlook as the user-agent, on the email server they keep in the cellar.
* "I don't understand why people need group calendars. Seems useless"
* "It's impossible to send plain-text email in Outlook (because I don't know where the settings are)"
* Someone who has been using emacs for email since 1988 only because they can't remember the meta key combinations to actually exit emacs.
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Security for 1. Office 365 support but since you're retired I guess that's not important.
I would rather use a web based email than Outlook if I could. Outlook is only useful for corporate stuff like Office 365 groups, shared calendars, Oracle add in crap, etc.
You missed (Score:4, Insightful)
... the fact that it is just crap; slow, flaky, unreliable with an truly awful UX.
It's a paid placement (Score:2)
Has to be, right? Since when did Slashdot start covering the mundane non-crashy details about Microsoft product releases?
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everything is 'on the web' so the companies can siphon your data, match user profiles to existing databases, compile metrics, and sell it all to the highest bidders.
if you don't specifically need whatever unique or exclusive features 'outlook on the web' may have, you should be using 'outlook on your pc' (or better.. thunderbird, kmail, geary, evolution, etc) instead.
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What an ignorant statement.
Have you ever thought I don't know perhaps someone on a vacation and need email access? Home PC? Etc
I prefer web mail to clients for years as Outlook is not Office's better products.
Missing features... (Score:2)
This is code for more adverts in your face (Score:1)
Or some other such BS that the end customer didn't ask for and doesn't want.
Oh, good (Score:2)
The world's worst email client (and half-decent calendaring system).
If anything shows how little progress has been made in software over the last 30 years it's Outlook.
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Surpringly the web version of office 365 supports plugins and add-ons that you run the PC version.
Not saying Outlook is cool. I hate it and consider it the worst of Office products. But if you need to use it on Linux for a meeting invite the web one delivers for work stuff.
I wish libraoffice was actually competent
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I actually like the version of Outlook on my PC (at work; at home I use Thunderbird). But I detest the webmail version of Outlook. Horrible UI: next to no configurability, wasted white space, terrible gray-on-gray fonts-on-background, always putting things in "conversations mode" when I prefer "messages mode", won't let me type in partial email addresses that are in my address book, can't do decent searches like I can in the desktop version, often displays a blank page when I try to write a new email, or
No way (Score:2)
better than the previuos version, but ... (Score:5, Informative)
I'm a user of the new Outlook, in my office, without any choices on my part.
While on the whole, it appears to be an improvement over the previous version (especially on medium-sized screens like laptops), it includes a new feature that is idiotic: suggested replies. As you read each message, there are three suggested replies. I have no idea where the data for these replies came from, but they are never, ever, ever any good.
Another feature is a set of suggested files when you want to upload an attachment to a message. Again, I have no idea where these suggestions come from, but they are utterly stupid, and, since you have to scroll through them to get to the Pick a File from My Computer option, they are also an ANTI-productivity feature.
I'd love to be able to turn both of these distractions off.
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"set it to use sensible spacing for a computer rather than the phone layout that web designers seem to think everyone wants": one of my biggest gripes is what you call the "phone layout". So I'll give, how do you set it to use sensible spacing?
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Office 365 does have extra features in Outlook and Excel and applications like 1 TB of Ondrive, Teams, Yammer, flow for SharePoint online, and a free 750 hours of virtual machines in Azure.
Good for small to medium sized business who want Exchange and SharePoint but don't want to manage it nor hire an IT guy
/. why isn't this flagged as an advert? (Score:3, Insightful)
M$ shill shilling shite. Hey msmash, why not tell your overlords to improve the reminders window instead? It's been the fucking same shit since 2000!
Not only to the web (Score:2)
I went to check email on my issued iPhone and was told there was an update for the "app". I couldn't receive or send any email until I installed the newest piece of shit.
Now, instead of having nice, big, dark lettering, it, like everything else Microsoft, has been reduced to child-like design.
Obligatory magic 8 ball comment (Score:1)
It would be better to fix MS Word (Score:2)
The O365 version of Word is a steaming pile of bacteria-laden mucous. It's okay if you want to dash off a quick memo, but to edit even a slightly complex Word doc it's a mess and an exercise in frustration.
Bulleting/numbering is broken, margins are messed up.
Review and markup are basically non-existent.
It'll insert subtle formatting errors (like removing random spaces) that you can't see until you open it in the desktop version.
Search and replace is pared down to the minimum functionality.
Formatting options
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What the fuck are you talking about?
You'd know if you ever used a word processor instead of crayons.
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"Bulleting/numbering is broken": I'm surprised to hear you say that wrt Word 0365. I don't believe numbering (at least legal numbering) has *ever* worked right in any version of Word. Whereas it's worked just fine in LaTeX since the latter came out...in 1985.
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I don't believe numbering (at least legal numbering) has *ever* worked right in any version of Word.
And you would be correct, lol. It's always been a mess.
It's better now but after 20+ years and a kajillion revisions you'd think they would have managed to fix it.
WordPerfect got it right, but that was back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Fortunately, I don't have to see it (Score:2)
The college I work for enforces use of O365 for everything. Last year, they moved to having Microsoft host it "in the cloud".
That, of course, made all of the user accounts "fair game" for hijacking by script kiddies, but it did bring an advantage. The cloud version can be used by non-MS clients, so I no longer have to manually log in to O365's web interface (with the "Try the new Office365 interface!" announcements) to read the occasional email.
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Yeap, and it would be easier to use even if it lacked most of those features, simply because it has a far better UI. Whereas the webmail version looks like it was designed with crayons on those wide-lined sheets of paper we used to get in first grade.
Top-posting (Score:2)
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Outlook on web forces top-posting. Ugh.
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I'm pretty sure Outlook everywhere promotes top-posting. (Not sure "enforces" is the right word, but it certainly isn't easy to do anything but.)