• @Passerby6497
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    581 month ago

    Because it’s worse than new outlook, and that says something.

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    1 month ago

    So they are keeping the Mail app, but changing it so you can’t send or receive email. That seems pretty pointless. Just remove it from Windows altogether and be done with it.

    • @kennebel
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      251 month ago

      I’m sure there is a hidden dependency from the file system or something…

      • Nate
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        51 month ago

        Calendar depends on it. Even in windows 11, mail and calendar accounts in settings don’t function right if mail (& calendar) is removed

    • DominusOfMegadeus
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      141 month ago

      I’m reasonably certain they are not aware of how to remove anything from windows.

      • @emax_gomax
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        101 month ago

        Explains why control panel and settings are both still a thing like a decade after they said they’d be removing the former.

  • @helpImTrappedOnline
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    161 month ago

    So they are replacing windows mail with Microsoft outlook, which was replaced by windows mail years ago (well not really 100% true, its fun to think of it that way)

    Although, to be fair, maintaining two mail clients is pretty stupid.

    If they can stop pushing all the separate half baked “new”/"beta/“work” versions of mail and teams, and just update them so everyone’s on the same garbage apps, that would be great.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      I just love how outlook is supposedly their best effort in the email segment, yet I have literally had it show me that a new email has arrived, then hiding it, and the only way for it to become visible again is to restart the app. This happens at least once a week.

      • @helpImTrappedOnline
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        21 month ago

        Happens to me all the time too, I’ll open it via the notification and it just won’t show up.

        Or I’ll delete an email about 5 time until its finally gone.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 month ago

    Kind of funny. Windows mail is actually the only Microsoft app I actually kind of like. At least design wise. I like how friendly and kind of mobile UI-ish it looks.

    • @pycorax
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      81 month ago

      Same, it’s clean, straightforward and fast unlike the shitty web wrapper that is the new Outlook. If they go ahead with this, I might actually just go ahead and start writing a clone.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 month ago

    I switched to Thunderbird when they started to get insistent about switching to Outlook.

    • @clutchtwopointzero
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      11 month ago

      I switched to eM Client… Happy to pay for an alternative email client platform

      • @[email protected]
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        Funny they killed the free tier almost the same day as Microsoft made the outlook announcement. I dumped both of them for Thunderbird. Not as pretty but does the job for the limited use case I have:

  • @pdxfed
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    101 month ago

    Narrator: No one ever asked for it or is using it already.

  • @mrcleanup
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    51 month ago

    Jokes on you Microsoft, I recently ditched windows.

  • @fox2263
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    21 month ago

    Annoying you can’t sign in to the new app with a business account unless you have a specific license. Windows mail has no such restriction.