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I remember hearing around 2004 that from watson/microsoft telemetry Outlook was the most ran app in the world by the hours being up. Certainly made sense becaus

I remember hearing around 2004 that from watson/microsoft telemetry Outlook was the most ran app in the world by the hours being up. Certainly made sense because it was always on for everyone, including myself. The things one could do in Outlook with rules, highlights, actions, views, and (for a while at least) custom forms was absolutely limitless. I did a bunch of MAPI coding too which gave me a lot of appreciation for the underlying API. The regression to the "dumber" client (and lack of support for offline PST!) is not great.

EvanAnderson 2y ago
"Classic" Outlook has gone to hell in the last decade, too. Outlook 2010 was "peak Outlook". It was fast and worked well. Armed with "Advanced Find" and a large but poorly organized mailbox I could find what I needed quickly and efficiently. The whole "de-emphasizing" of the Advanced Find feature and moving to that god-awful unified search box was emblematic, to me, that the adult supervision had departed the product team. I enjoyed making MAPI forms to do automation in my office, back in the day. MAPI and custom forms never reached the level of Lotus Notes application development. This was, arguably, because Notes was actually a general solution that just happened have an email client implemented in it. Outlook was an evolution of the old "Exchange" / Microsoft Mail paradigm and was really a mail client at its heart.