• pahlimur@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    All of Microsoft office products haven’t changed for the good in more than a decade. I still use office 2007 on my personal desktop and 90% of the features and buttons are in the same spot as the current office 365 offering.

    Only thing that is an improvement is live collaboration, but that’s getting constantly screwed up by one drive sucking ass.

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    26 days ago

    The corp I’m working at moved to Outlook Web.

    It’s so hostile about downloading attachments through anything but OneDrive it’s comical.

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    25 days ago

    Hah, I JUST had a conversation with my boss about whether or not I was using the “new” outlook or the “old” outlook.

    He’s apparently using the “old” outlook because there’s a toggle switch in the upper right of his window that says “try the new outlook!” and I don’t have that, meaning…I guess I’m using the “new” outlook?

    Who knows at this point. It’s all trash.

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      25 days ago

      Very much so.

      They are paying for the service and expect appropriate treatment.

      Companies generally frown upon their data being taken. It’s only consumers who use “free” services that really suffer from this. After all, if you’re not paying you are the product.

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        22 days ago

        So does MS know what I look like and have my age and phone no? presumably the tenant cloud is zero-knowledge from Redmond’s perspective

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    24 days ago

    I’ve been paying for Office365 home for years. Recently I started a business and signed up for 365 Business for the company email address.

    Outlook stopped working, because the 365 Business account - which I specifically signed up in order to do email - doesn’t include local Outlook, and my existing home-licensed one throws a hissy fit if I try connecting it to my business account.

    Microsoft sucks.

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      24 days ago

      I’ve stepped away from Microsoft. Not my favourite company regarding mailing and chatting.

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    26 days ago

    Sometimes I think about the billions of dollars of wasted productivity caused by Outlook being so bad at rendering email.

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      25 days ago

      I think every day about the productivity lost because people use Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. Maybe even multiple times a day.

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        25 days ago

        Most applications would be fine with plain text, some could use markdown, some would need org-mode, a bit further something like HTML or word-perfect format.

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        25 days ago

        Word and Powerpoint are not the worst - just think about all the time lost due to whatever Microsoft is doing in Teams or by random decisions like moving the start button to the middle instead of leaving it where it was since 1995, which automatically renders every corporate training video obsolete.

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          25 days ago

          Sure, Teams is horrible - but at least it only affects people who use Teams. Whereas the abysmal UI and worthless templates in MS Word affects every person who has to read anything produced with MS Word too. It’s designed to make documents ugly and hard to read.

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    25 days ago

    Has anyone tried the new Atari Outlook? You want open that in Atari outlook?

    Nah! I use shoelace outlook exclusively. I know its deprecated but just pull the chord a little and it’s as good as new!

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    25 days ago

    In my last job I installed Outlook on my personal phone to access my work calendar conveniently. Found out from a colleague that if the admin for an Outlook server you’re signed into on any device fucks up badly enough you could end up having that device completely wiped so I promptly uninstalled it.

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      Yeah, you’re talking about MDM (Mobile Device Management) solutions/tech. I’m not an IT employee myself, but I am familiar with these things from work (similar situation as yours), and also because I’m a nerd and like researching these things.

      On some phones, like Samsung’s (“Secure Folder”), you can have [essentially] a second, containerized instance of Android running. Or you can think of it like a virtual second user that ultimately you have control of. So what I did was install Outlook in that. Because the MDM permissions (e.g. wipe the phone) would only affect that container.

      Otherwise, for everyone else – yeah don’t install work apps/accounts on your personal devices.

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        My understanding is that it’s called work profile. It’s like having 2 users in the same phone. One is personal and you manage it. The other is company owned and you can only install apps whitelisted by your it admin.

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        25 days ago

        I’d love to keep outlook off my personal phone but there’s no chance I’m getting a company phone considering I’m a shop employee and everything in it is an afterthought for IT. Like our computers still run windows 7.

        Unfortunately I need email to do my job, on a ping system for what to test and general communications with coworkers who are often not there or traveling in the field.

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        25 days ago

        Just to expand on this. There is an Exchange specific wipe feature. I think it is quite old school and not really used. Have seen it, but never tested it myself. As per documentation it can perform device wipe, but only if native mail client using ActiveSync is used not Outlook. And it probably does not work with all native mail clients, depends if app has device admin permissions.

        Current Intune MDM model always uses separate Android storage so any operation including wipe will affect only this storage not your personal space so employer can not see nor delete your personal data.

        In Intune there is another option without a need of enrolling device (MDM) where you can manage supported apps. It’s called MAM. If wipe is initiated it affects only data in all apps that support MAM.

        In short, companies / schools cannot really wipe your device if we are talking about Intune MDM. Other MDM solutions probably can.

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          25 days ago

          Activesync

          Now, that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.

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      25 days ago

      here’s some advice from me. Outlook is completely usable from a web browser. This includes phone browsers… just use that if you need your emails on your personal phone.

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    25 days ago

    My work and my former university uses outlook and Ms apps as their primary line of communication . It’s like the most counterintuitive site there is

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    26 days ago

    Yeah I feel this. Outlook pisses me off. So does Microsoft in general.

    What pisses me off more is HP.

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      25 days ago

      Yes but I don’t use HP for email because it won’t let me send one if my cyan ink is low.

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        Sounds about right. They tried to get me sign up for a subscription for customer service. They told me they could solve my issue (I forgot my bitlocker encryption key and was giving my old HP laptop to a family member so I needed it to whip the device) but only if I sign up for the subscription. It wouldve cost me $54 to get customer service that day. I laughed at the guy over the phone and he tried to defend the company by saying its worth it pay since I did not know how to solve my issue and needed their help. I didn’t pay and found a work around on my own

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    25 days ago

    Microsoft sucks and so does Outlook. My dad uses Outlook personally and I just can’t imagine that. It’s like taking your torture rack home with you for personal usage.

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      Idk I like outlook. Its more feature rich and reliable than any other client Ive used. Especially since basically every company uses Echange for email.

      Edit: I should clarify, I dont like outlook overall. But thats more because email in general sucks. Outlook is the best out of all of the email clients though, especially for power users.

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      25 days ago

      My dad is also a huge Outlook fan. I think you need to just have been using it for 20+ years

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    26 days ago

    “new” outlooks has less features than the old one. And its even harder to find things in settings (they removed a bunch of stuff). I dont look forward to this being on work devices…

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    25 days ago

    As a help desk worker, I am starting to get tired of Microsoft’s bullshit.

    Try something new and it doesn’t work out? Fine. That’s reasonable.

    But can we stop breaking what was already working?

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      25 days ago

      This is what happens with innovation when only monopolies are left on the board.

      Name an industry, it’s the same. But here’s the dog shit. You still have to give shareholders returns. When you ran out of shit to innovate like 25 years ago, ran out of companies to buy 10 years ago, and already captured the regulatory bodies. Congrats it’s game over.

      Except it’s never game over. Just squeeze one side til the toothpaste runs out.

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    25 days ago

    I still think there is a group of people working at microsoft, pulling the strings to dismantle the company from the inside. I haven’t seen an update that makes things better for any of their projects in years

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        25 days ago

        I imagine Microsoft has the same problem as Google, which is internally prioritizing flashy new things over maintaining useful old things. That’s why Google comes out with so many new things and kills so many old things.

        If you want a raise/promotion/etc., you have a better shot at it by bragging about the new feature/service you launched than bragging about maintaining the relatively stable project that’s been running for years but could use some improvements.

        It’s a really bad structure imo and I hate that Google and other companies prioritize like that :/