They should kill entirety of Outlook.com. It's been years and they can't get the spam under control. Nor the absolutely garbage UI.
Yeah, I'm sure they'll get right on that.
Also, outlook.com redirects to outlook.live.com/owa ....
I've been using it on and off since the 90's and it feels like it gets worse every year, the current iteration is barely usable.
Same goes with Outlook. See what they introduced recently: https://twitter.com/DenysVitali/status/1587752974062944256
Wtf?
But that's nothing compared to "the new Outlook"[1] being a webview around the Outlook.com UI library. It looks really nice in concepts but once installed it just feels like a browser in a frame: there's a window-sized splash screen, the fonts are "browser-y" (i.e.: wrong smoothing compared to Office), controls "feel" web, etc. I usually like Office Insider but once that rolled out I immediately reverted.
1: https://insider.office.com/en-us/blog/new-outlook-for-window...
EDIT: Originally called it "Electron" as a catch-all, forgot about Edge webview.
Either way, it felt really bad coming off the native, animated, efficient Office UI. And I'm usually not against Electron/webview apps.
Teams is just a an Electron (AKA Chrome shit-client) program. So nothing can be done, unless they want to re-write the program from scratch. I'm not saying the current situation is acceptable, its not. But when you choose Electron, you more or less doom your product to having awful performance forever.
did you forget a "/s" or something?
you realize thats just another Chrome shit-client right?
How is that any better than the current situation? Its actually worse, since now that version will get old quite fast, unless Microsoft decides to also do forced updates like Google does.
The main benefits are that the apps should be faster, smaller, and use less resources as they don't include the whole of Electron (Chrome) with each one. So ideally massively less resource usage as so much is shared.
Running VS Code and Teams at the same time, for instance, would ideally use around half of the resources (a naive guess but you see the point).
As you allude to, though, it relies on MS keeping it updated but I would hope they take that seriously as if it takes off then one late update leaves multiple apps vulnerable. It remains to be seen.
I guess this means that I'm reducing the signal they get for what "good" email is, as approximately 100 percent of the emails I get there are promotional or spam.
It's a pity sweep is desktop web only.
Their email alias feature is cool, allows you to change your login ID retroactively.
I wish they'd take it a step further by allowing me to set a login-only ID e.g. the login ID cannot be used to send nor receive emails (security by obscurity).