What's something about Microsoft Outlook that drives you crazy?
What's something about Microsoft Outlook that drives you crazy?
Obligitory "I have to use it for my job," so let's commiserate.
It's the worst program in all of the Office Suite. MS wrote the goddamn OS and email client, but for some reason if I have two instances open for two different inboxes and try to pull one up on the taskbar, the wrong instance will pull up every single time without fail.
My runner-up complaint is how when I use the search bar, sometimes it'll forget what I'm doing and when I hit enter it'll open some email instead of executing the search.
Every update makes it worse, so what drives you crazy?
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I have to run it through a browser because I'm on Linux and it's constantly logging me out Even when I say don't do it don't ask again just keep me logged in. Nope fuck you log out, and sometimes it gets stuck in a loop where I log in and it logs me out immediately over and over until I clear my cache and reset my browser it's insane
The most useless UI element ever invented:
It works on open source stuff I use, at least. Also there's no hope if you connect over multiple devices, as only one browser on one machine has the authentication cookie
That one happens for me, too. I like to imagine a non-techie trying to use that web version and every time it starts doing the login-logout loop, they have to contact tech support.
For me it happens about once a week. Surely, there's organizations where this keeps tech support busy all day...
I especially like this in MS Teams
It looks like it's working fine, then you try to join a meeting and randomly get one of:
- It works
- "We're setting things up for you" for up to 10 minutes
- "Your organisation does not allow remote connections"
- Automatically logs in like you authorised it last time
It always works fine if you close your browser and re-open it between uses of teams.microsoft.com
Have you seen the one where you're actually in a meeting and it warns that you've been logged out but still lets you continue your meeting?
I haven't, but wow am I unsurprised
has been a long time since I used teams on my phone. It used to log me out constantly there too... but it kept sending notifications of all messages to the phone until I opened the actual app to be told I was logged out
That sounds like a use-case for a separate browser profile. That way when you reset everything you're not affecting every other site you visit.