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The Microsoft E-mail client is an absolute shitshow. It's another huge regression in the Office suite. I got new computers for my parents and made the mistake
by NonNefarious 4y ago
The Microsoft E-mail client is an absolute shitshow. It's another huge regression in the Office suite.
I got new computers for my parents and made the mistake of getting them Windows machines because that's what they're familiar with. I set up Office, but Outlook is so defective that it was literally unusable. The final straw was that it defies Windows's own system-wide font-size setting. I needed to make the font bigger so my mom could read it, but Outlook ignored it... leaving her In box totally illegible to her (and barely legible period).
I was pleasantly surprised when I installed Thunderbird (after not trying it for 20 years) and everything worked well. It even handled the 15,000+ messages in her AOL In-box (yep, AOL).
Beyond the E-mail issue, Outlook 365 continually stopped working and badgered both my parents for MY account credentials, so I shitcanned it and replaced it with LibreOffice... on my systems as well. I find it less reprehensible than Office.