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That is terribly hobbled. Examples:

1. You can't run all the rules on your inbox to sweep the piled up email after a weekend reboot. No such option while it is still present in the legacy native Outlook.

2. You have no option of deleting an entry in your calendar without sending a decline. I am in many groups and sometimes just want to clean up my calendar without sending declines. Again, very much present in the native program.

No one expects genuine innovation from MS, but at least they could put some effort into feature parity. Too much to ask for in the days of Copilot I guess.

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> 1. You can't run all the rules on your inbox to sweep the piled up email after a weekend reboot. No such option while it is still present in the legacy native Outlook.

I'm not sure what you mean. I have rules running regularly to move messages around, delete messages older than X in some folders. It all runs fine. Maybe there are some other kinds of rules I'm not aware of? But I do remember that back when "old outlook" was still the main thing, I needed to be running for the rules to apply, which meant that interacting with a different client was always... funny.

> 2. You have no option of deleting an entry in your calendar without sending a decline

Could this be a config flag somewhere? I've just run a test and invited my MS account from a personal mailbox. On the event, once accepted, there are two separate actions: decline and delete. I've received the "accepted" mail, but haven't received anything after "deleting" the event.

1. You can run selective rules, but when you have a whole bunch, running all is more sensible.

2. When you select a slot in the calendar screen and press delete, the only options you get are cancel and decline.

All this is applicable for the PWA. The native client works fine.

I don't understand what you mean by your first point.

The delete button I was talking about is in Outlook running in a browser: https://i.imgur.com/k4ejdw4.png

Pressing the delete key on my keyboard brings this up: https://i.imgur.com/SBVkpVf.png

Clicking delete doesn't send any notification to the other side, where this account still shows as having accepted the invite (the other side is a different Office 365 organization).

That is interesting. I'm using the PWA on Linux - I can't share a screenshot but basically pressing the delete key shows two buttons: Cancel and Decline Event? - I don't get the Delete option like you do.

> after a weekend reboot

Isn't new outlook lives in the cloud? So this shouldn't be a usecase.

How is being in cloud relevant if you are rebooting weekly.

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