I'm betting in 15 years, people will still be using Outlook (classic). This is the culture.

EvanAnderson 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It depends on how badly Microsoft continues to fuck up Outlook (classic).

I don't use Outlook for my personal email, but I've used it in various corporate engagements and not been wholly dissatisfied. Newer versions are slower, more bloated, and unstable (though add-ins-- especially the Teams add-in-- contribute to that).

The most egregious regression, for me, has been the "Advanced Find" functionality (which was wonderful in the 97 thru 2010 versions) being changed-out for the god-awful search box within the Outlook window.

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proactivesvcs 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We could have said that for publisher a few years back. Its death knell has been sounded and microsoft aren't even offering any way for people to properly view or print their publisher files, let alone edit them.

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babypuncher 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The culture is correct, the new version of Outlook is hot garbage

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bombcar 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The new version of outlook is our only hope of escaping the IE 6 email renderer in classic outlook, sadly.

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joe_mamba 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which "new" Outlook? I think there's like 3 versions of Outlook currently on the market. The Classic Win32 one they want you to stop using, the new Lite variant bundled for free with Windows 11, and the new Full Spec one that comes with Office 365, both of which are built on web technologies IIRC.

	▲	babypuncher 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That one that comes with office 365. My work PC got auto updated with it and I switched back to the Win32 version within an hour because it was buggy and a huge resource hog. It's just an email client and calendar, there's no need to keep reinventing the wheel, especially if you're just gonna make it worse. The macOS version still has all of them beat.

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nekusar 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Its the fucking federal government's policy. Basically it amounts to "pay microsoft as a form of corporate welfare", "permit but not really allow linux", and "this is how it has always been done".

	▲	gchamonlive 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And also because apparently "nobody has ever been fired for choosing Microsoft", which is something that should start happening more often if you ask me
	▲	wang_li 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As long as Linux distros have such shit accessibility stories, MacOS and Windows being available should be a requirement for all systems in government.