That's not a solution, nor is that acceptable. If Microsoft is going to dumb down the Mac version then charge Mac customers less money than the Windows version. Period. You care more about looks. I care about functionality because at the end of the day functionality gets the work done, not "prettiness". If Apple was pulling this stunt making the same software for multiple platforms and charging the same money for all platforms yet the Mac customers get a lot more for the same money there would be lawsuits left right and sideways. There should be a lawsuit for how Microsoft cheats Mac customers but charges them full price.
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Microsoft Announces Outlook for Mac Redesign, Improvements to iOS and watchOS Apps
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MS is still blowing off most IMAP mail accounts in the "New" Outlook. U need to use the "Old" look to keep those accounts.
So I tested this in the insider slow path on my works Office 365 tenant, and one thing it dropped support for from the prior version was contact lists i.e. I add a contact of "Email List 1" and it can be expanded to the 50 people I need to send reports to. Without this I don't want to upgrade because I'll have to copy and paste the To: and CC: fields every day which is just way way way more cumbersome.
Seeing this took me back to Windows XP. Bleh! Yucky. This is not a good fit with macOS. It's a custom UI.
Thankfully I'm not an Outlook user, but I do respect Microsoft for the future strides that they've finally been making. Guess they can't be perfect all the time, though.
I agree Teams can be a bit slow, but I don't think Discord shares that slowness and that's made using Electron too, I think. 🤔
Anyway, like many others I too think Microsoft is doing a good job recently when it comes to the graphical look in its software. I think the Edge browser looks great, for example.
Been running the beta with this design for a couple of months. Honestly love it. Besdies work, I use outlook for my gmail account now. I think Microsoft really knocked it out of the park with this client.
This plus lack of local storage on OneNote has caused me to ditch MSFT on my Macs.
I think my favourite new "feature" of this is that when you accept/tentative/decline a meeting with a response through the context menu, it now takes you to the same message compose screen, with the same three options repeated on the screen, regardless of the menu option you chose.
The number of meetings I accepted with a polite decline message before I rolled the new UI back....
🤦♂️ Reported it to MS and they said it's supposed to be like that.
The number of meetings I accepted with a polite decline message before I rolled the new UI back....
🤦♂️ Reported it to MS and they said it's supposed to be like that.
It looks great but if it keeps signing me out of my iCloud email like it currently does, it's useless to me.
I'm beta testing (and agree it's great for the most part) and I'm not aware that Outlook syncs with macOS Contacts/Calender (I believe that was back in the days of iSync) but rather syncs with contacts/calendars of accounts you add (Exchange, Gmail, etc)
It's laughable that the 'new' version of Outlook for macOS, nor *any* version for iOS/iPadOS, are yet capable of viewing or decrypting S/SMIME emails from 'old' Outlook from Mac or Windows. But iOS Mail can.
I’m on the outlook beta and don’t see any options for single line view with the reading pane to the right. Also in conversation view it shows messages in sent items and filed messages which makes the thread look very confusing.
On the windows side, in conversation view, it would show messages filed or archived in italics. This made it a lot easier to go through emails.
On the windows side, in conversation view, it would show messages filed or archived in italics. This made it a lot easier to go through emails.
But isn’t the same app ? Why bother make two apps , since it can compile it to iPad.
I have been testing the new Outlook for a while and I will not be making the switch from the standard OS apps. The reasons are:
* No widgets
* currently Outlook cannot import ics files (which I use extensively) into Exchange calendars
* No support for extensions in macOS
* doesn't currently support Exchange Online archives (the old version did - now we have feature parity with the Mail.app which also doesn't support online archives)
* doesn't use macOS notifications for calendar
* no support for S/MIME mails. It might come before RTM though..
Apart from that Outlook is just prettier and faster than before..
* No widgets
* currently Outlook cannot import ics files (which I use extensively) into Exchange calendars
* No support for extensions in macOS
* doesn't currently support Exchange Online archives (the old version did - now we have feature parity with the Mail.app which also doesn't support online archives)
* doesn't use macOS notifications for calendar
* no support for S/MIME mails. It might come before RTM though..
Apart from that Outlook is just prettier and faster than before..
No there are two separate apps, with completely different base code. Do not expect that Microsoft will unify the code...Two different teams working on two different products. the iOS version might be ok for the iPhone but on the iPad is severely crippled..