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People actually use Mail in Windows 10?
by a1o 2y ago
People actually use Mail in Windows 10?
- Waterluvian 2y agoProbably millions of people. Us nerds need to habitually self-remind that we’re a sliver of the total user base and our experience and needs are not representative.”
- a1o 2y agoI use Outlook, not super nerdy, idnk
- sincerely 2y agoIf you’re reading HN, you’re so much nerdier than the average software user that the existence of super nerds is irrelevant
- vorticalbox 2y agoI think this was more a generalisation about HN as a whole than directed at you.
- Philip-J-Fry 2y agoI did, it was a genuinely good little lightweight UWP email app. Now they've turned it into a bloated ad-ridden Outlook webview app.
- teekert 2y agoWas gonna say, I wonder if he still uses it now that it is that Outlook thing :) I’ve been helping people to Thunderbird. Most people are like: Mail>Thunderbird>New Outlook thingy. Good enough for me ;)
- SunlitCat 2y agoDon't get me wrong, Thunderbird is awesome for what it is (and the Mail thingy was kinda perfect as a lightweight mail client) but Thunderbird has some rough edges. Like it took me long until I figured out how to show message size, filter by date and then sort it by message size. Of course, the Mail thingy wasn't able to do something like that, but I remember waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back, that Communicator (that Mail program which came with Netscape / Mozilla) was way simpler to use than Thunderbird. But maybe my memories are hazy as this was like ~15 - ~20 years ago.
- TillE 2y agoI'm guessing that happened almost exactly a year ago, which is when I was astonished to find that they'd junked up their perfectly good Weather app with ads. Microsoft does plenty of cool things these days, but it's bizarre how they're pushing these little Windows monetization efforts like it's some garbage F2P mobile game.
- overstay8930 2y agoMicrosoft knows most people aren't going to buy a Mac
- marcosdumay 2y agoI remember liking it when I found the app. But then I had to use the web interface to do anything with filters, so when I had to reinstall Windows I didn't bother configuring it again. And now everything is on Teams anyway.
- m_a_g 2y agoI don't know a single techie person who uses Windows (other than for gaming), let alone Mail in Windows. But the other replies are right. We're not really representative of the entire population, especially if you consider the developing world.
- vector_spaces 2y agoThis phenomenon of software engineers using MacBooks for work is a rare and primarily coastal phenomenon, at least in North America. Virtually all software engineering at utility companies, hospitals, state and local governments, and similarly boring but critical enterprise companies in industries like insurance happens on Windows on Azure using Windows or Microsoft oriented stacks.
- hsdropout 2y ago>Windows on Azure Lol, citation needed if you actually believe this. >or Microsoft oriented stacks. is a very complicated way to say Windows desktop.
- vector_spaces 2y agoRe windows desktop, no, it's not a complicated way of saying that. I am talking about, for example: - ASP.NET Core backends running on anything (e.g. Linux) - Angular or Vue frontends running on anything - applications using SQL Server databases running on anything - applications targeting on-prem Windows servers or VMs or, sure, Windows desktops - data / reporting systems that interact with AAS
- hsdropout 2y agoApparently I phrased my response poorly. I was responding to the narrow context of the idea that devs aren't using Azure VMs instead of Macs. I was not disputing the popularity of Azure.
- _cenw 2y ago
- SunlitCat 2y agoI did, till they took it from my claws and tried to convince to use that Outlook thing. :( It was kinda perfect for peeking into mails, deleting a few, answering some other and stuff. Not a great client to do your business communication, but to drop someone a quick mail, it was neat.
- kristianp 2y agoFunny to see Satya using it. You'd think he'd be on the full Outlook. Maybe it's a case of dogfooding.
- cm2187 2y agoTo me the biggest news is not that he is using Mail on Windows but that he is using Windows. You wouldn't tell that the CEO of the company is using the product given how badly they let it decay.
- layer8 2y agoI’m more surprised he doesn’t seem to know basic comma rules.