If you're on Office 365, the Outlook web client is great (https://outlook.office.com). In fact, I haven't used the full client since 2015, except for rare cases.
Or, you can enjoy the quiet while email is down :)
Would have to disagree. With any ad/tracking protection or non-chromium based browsers, the web client is not very good. For MacOS, it constantly requires reloads in order to get different folders, emails, or other basic functionality (Calendar, Categories, etc) to work correctly. The text editor is completely random in what it decides to do with formatting, links automatically have a gigantic preview link inserted into the text body, the UI is very much so different than the Outlook Client UI and does not port over any of the Outlook Client items (this is more a design decision in general from Microsoft on what is client side vs what is server side...)
The Web Client in its current form is functional, in that I can write and receive emails, but the experience is greatly diminished. Don't mistake me for liking the Outlook client (I am a very modest email user, no more than 400 some per day + a Tetris-style calendar), but this load crashes the client on a daily basis, on start up it takes a good 30 seconds before the client becomes responsive (with multiple local profile rebuilds), and sometimes just crashing randomly when reading certain HTML formatted emails.
Outlook is an exercise in frustration in general that unfortunately my entire company has built its foundation upon. The core ideas are great, but the execution on all fronts is awful. I'm actually almost disappointed when I open the mobile app and it __hasn't completely changed some UI/UX element__ as daily changes are the norm for me.
(all this being said, I'm shocked that Gmail somehow took Outlooks unusualness as a challenge and designed a worse UI/UX experience...)
Hmm; Maybe I'm not a power user of Office 365 Outlook, but I'm on openSUSE Tumbleweed, running Firefox and that's all I use for work e-mail. I think I have Chrome and Chromium on here, but I haven't used them in months.
At this point, if the OS wasn't an issue, I wouldn't use the full client, ever (for all of the reasons others have provided). The only gremlin I've encountered, routinely, is a situation where the rich editor doesn't see a "space" until I've typed a character after it. It's mildly distracting at worst, and far less of a problem than typing and having the thing just sit there like it'll get to my input as soon as the spirit moves it.
On that note, really, all of Microsoft's web products have been pleasant to use. They've become good enough that I rarely end up in the LibreOffice equivalents. The "Teams" client for Linux (in Preview; I run the Insiders version) integrates well -- clicking links from my calendar opens meetings. Some things are a little off, but are a few settings away from being ideal for me. It's lacking some of the features of its more developed Windows client, but it isn't as bad as the mac Lync client was back when I last had an opportunity to experience Microsoft's conferencing platform on non-Windows.
... apparently you have to know that your (personal) Office 365 account is no good here? I thought maybe Microsoft cleaned up their confusing mess of logins a few years back. Perhaps not!
> You can't sign in here with a personal account. Use your work or school account instead.
I would prefer to use the website, but I never got desktop reminders to work properly (i.e stay on screen and not hidden behind other windows). That's on macOS. Calendar and tasks without reminders is pretty much useless for me.
csydas|5 years ago
The Web Client in its current form is functional, in that I can write and receive emails, but the experience is greatly diminished. Don't mistake me for liking the Outlook client (I am a very modest email user, no more than 400 some per day + a Tetris-style calendar), but this load crashes the client on a daily basis, on start up it takes a good 30 seconds before the client becomes responsive (with multiple local profile rebuilds), and sometimes just crashing randomly when reading certain HTML formatted emails.
Outlook is an exercise in frustration in general that unfortunately my entire company has built its foundation upon. The core ideas are great, but the execution on all fronts is awful. I'm actually almost disappointed when I open the mobile app and it __hasn't completely changed some UI/UX element__ as daily changes are the norm for me.
(all this being said, I'm shocked that Gmail somehow took Outlooks unusualness as a challenge and designed a worse UI/UX experience...)
mdip|5 years ago
At this point, if the OS wasn't an issue, I wouldn't use the full client, ever (for all of the reasons others have provided). The only gremlin I've encountered, routinely, is a situation where the rich editor doesn't see a "space" until I've typed a character after it. It's mildly distracting at worst, and far less of a problem than typing and having the thing just sit there like it'll get to my input as soon as the spirit moves it.
On that note, really, all of Microsoft's web products have been pleasant to use. They've become good enough that I rarely end up in the LibreOffice equivalents. The "Teams" client for Linux (in Preview; I run the Insiders version) integrates well -- clicking links from my calendar opens meetings. Some things are a little off, but are a few settings away from being ideal for me. It's lacking some of the features of its more developed Windows client, but it isn't as bad as the mac Lync client was back when I last had an opportunity to experience Microsoft's conferencing platform on non-Windows.
olyjohn|5 years ago
neogodless|5 years ago
> You can't sign in here with a personal account. Use your work or school account instead.
Of course it works if you instead go to https://www.outlook.com/
nubb|5 years ago
fauigerzigerk|5 years ago
techntoke|5 years ago