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Outlook new is missing one fundamental feature which is automation. This blob of html can not be programmed unlike predecessors for more 15 years.

It is so easy to instantiate and use old outlook that I really fail to understand what is their endgame with this killing of a top and well respected product.

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I think the article has it correct, its their way of forcing all users to have their emails stored and scraped by Microsoft, no matter the provider.

Need more free training data!

The most annoying part is the times outlook automatically updated to new outlook, of which I was not notified and could not decline. I guess it vacuumed up all my email data those times, even though I “reverted” to legacy outlook

I switched to doing most of the automation in power automate

This of course only works with exchange afaik, but why else would I use outlook.

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