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Absolutely user-hostile move. The same happened to the Outlook Web Access light version --- while it was not pure HTML, it was still much faster and more usable
by userbinator 2y ago
Absolutely user-hostile move. The same happened to the Outlook Web Access light version --- while it was not pure HTML, it was still much faster and more usable than the horribly bloated "modern" full version. Microsoft is slowly becoming the opposite of what it was known for, and that's going to cause customers to reconsider alternatives.
Meanwhile my ISP still offers a webmail client which doesn't require JS at all, and it's been like that for nearly 3 decades, proving that it is absolutely possible.
- WD-42 2y agoWhen was Microsoft known for being anything but a provider of bloated software?
- userbinator 2y agoThey were known for relative stability and best in backwards-compatibility, until around the Win8 era.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 2y agoThe world runs on legacy software, this is super important. At some point it seems like all industries start with providing useful things people want through creation and competition, and then flip to monopolistic exploitation. How can we keep the first part of this cycle and some how stop it from getting to the second?
- macintux 2y ago> and that's going to cause customers to reconsider alternatives. I'm very, very skeptical that anything short of Microsoft's bankruptcy could cause enterprises to seriously reconsider their software. It's just too convenient to pay one vendor for everything Microsoft brings to the table.
- p_ing 2y agoEnterprises will control which version of Outlook they deploy up to the point, in a few years from now, classic Outlook is EOL'ed for EXO. Until that point in time, Microsoft can set whatever default they want, and enterprises will deploy whatever they want to.