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I suspect a bunch of technical debt - the core of the application dates to 2000 or before (there are menu's changed for a very very long time).
by Aloha 2y ago
I suspect a bunch of technical debt - the core of the application dates to 2000 or before (there are menu's changed for a very very long time).
- OtherShrezzing 2y agoDoes the design need to change to address technical debt?
- sebazzz 2y agoI feel like at some point Microsoft deliberately decided not to want to maintain "old stuff" anymore. You see this with many other products as well. Desktop is bad, web is good.
- wvenable 2y agoMicrosoft is moving away from the single-platform; they want their apps to run on Windows, web, Mac OS, iOS, Android, and maybe even Linux. They do not want to maintain radically different versions for all these different platforms.
- sebazzz 2y agoYes, at the cost of the desktop experience - it seems. And at the cost of customization.
- wvenable 2y agoThe desktop experience has been secondary for years now -- Microsoft is only now catching up to that trend.
- mrweasel 2y agoThey shouldn't. Microsofts most valuable users are on desktop.
- xboxnolifes 2y agoI'm not so sure. Desktop, particularly Windows, is definitely important, but mobile is used a ton even in business.
- mrweasel 2y agoMicrosofts tools obviously needs to work well on mobile, and I can understand not wanting to maintain multiple code bases, but I think their hurting their users by not doing it. I know at least one CEO who will absolutely explode if they fuck up his Outlook. He probably have 20 years of business correspondences in there. Is that a good idea? Probably not, but he does. If Microsoft mess up Outlook, then there's very little reason for his company to not look at Google and Gmail, and he probably will just because he'll feel like Microsoft screwed him over.
- canucker2016 2y agoFirst version of Outlook was Outlook 97. It was supposed to be Outlook 95 and ship with Office 95, but the app was late.