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New Outlook Working Offline Phase 1: Rolled Out with Limitations
1/12/2025 Update: Microsoft has released several offline functionalities for Phase 1. Watch the video for details. Video: https://youtu.be/qzHfnlfhuEw?si=1hlWaykwl00ojPp0
All users will have acces...
As per almost every comment above, this really is astonishingly poor. What is the point of an application if it does nothing more than a web interface? What is the point of being able to locally store data if you are not able to access it? This really is functionality 101 and it is mind bending that users have been complaining about this for a year and it is not fixed.
andy2475 It is hard to know what to say. We are years into the development of a critical application, and you can't repoen it if it closes (or Windows crashes) when you are offline! Incredible.
You only have to look at the comments on the Windows store to see how well New Oulook is going down.
What is going on here?
So-called "New Outlook", new but lacking features of old/classic works well Outlook, offline mode does not work, period. Supposedly rolled out in 01/2024 and here it is 10/2024 and it does not work, period. Not to mention, another feature, ability to open PST/OST files from old/classic Outlook so a customers archived emails for decades can be accessed.
This stinks. I have a decade of work that I have to open old/classic/does the job Outlook to access and see.
It really stinks. I for one will start looking into other options... 10 months is too long to wait
Please give Microsoft your feedback. While in Outlook, navigate to View | Help | Feedback. They want to hear from users.
They should consider cancelling this project it has had virtually no improvements for too long.
I gave them feedback about missing IMAP setup fields that block me from using my corporate mail account and they completely ignored it. It works in every other email client Apple Mail, Thunderbird, The old Mail and Calendar and Classic Outlook.
It also makes no sense from a privacy perspective to send your credentials for third party mail accounts to Microsoft just to be able to use a cached web app in your desktop. This move is completely against users and an abuse on data extractivism.
And also the ads on third-party accounts, Windows is not a free software, every other operating system provides an add free mail client.
