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Unlike Microslop Outlook, there's a program that doesn't break when you lose internet connection.
The asshats for some reason felt that they needed to reinvent it as basically a web app and it’s broken in so many ways, and I think it’s lost feature parity with mobile and Mac instead of gaining. Sheer incompetence.
Can't wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts
He's going to keep all his wealth and maybe stroll into a high paying "consulting" gig. It's unfair. it's unjust. People who are bad at their jobs and making the world worse do not deserve immense wealth and comfort.
It's incredibly frustrating. I'm starting to think the only way out of poverty is immense crime.
Why? It's super funny to watch if you don't use Windows. I hope he stays forever and burns Microslop to the ground.
The way I see it: Corporate web apps (like Microsoft's) are evidence that the maker is putting administrative concerns ahead of user experience concerns. They're catering to the people who actually pay for this stuff, not to the users.
I switched to linux a bit over a year ago but had around a decade of feeling like MS and I disagreed about whose computer it was before that. MS has given me many "why the fuck would you do it like this!?" moments.
It's so much nicer using an OS where when something doesn't yet work as I want it to, I don't assume "because the people who made it are greedy assholes" is the reason for it.
Though I'd argue that they aren't just catering to those who pay for it, but also to themselves and various metrics and revenues they want. Like disabling autosave if you aren't saving to onedrive wasn't likely from any corporation other than MS itself.
Don't you kinda need internet for an email app?
No, given that one of the points of Outlook (and most email apps) is to store a local archive that can be read even when offline.
I found the most useful Outlook was '97. Just did everything I needed. Wasn't overly technical. No AI!
No encryption, probably running SMTP, no spoofing prevention, no compatibility with modern protocols, could it even handle files bigger than 2Mb?
But did we need all that back then?
Some people are being a bit pedantic about not technically needing the internet for email, and that's true, but the pedantry is hiding the fact that actually email is really cool in how it exists in whatever form we want it to be in! It can be transmitted over internet, or over bare TCP/IP, or even peer-to-peer. Most applications don't take advantage of how versatile email really is.
Of course, Micro$oft makes it rely on an always-on internet connection because it's better for their bottom line.
IPoAC is my personal favorite
Email is older than the internet.
Anyway, no, you don't need internet for the modern version we have today either. You only need it for a few moments.
For the curious History of email Wikipedia
Sorry to see you dog piled for an innocent question. We should see it as a good thing that someone who doesn't know found this space.
I see what you’re doing here
What am I doing?
"found this space"