What petty hill will you die on?
What petty hill will you die on?
For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.
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I can't imagine there is a good business, that communicates effectively, that is room in Microsoft Outlook.
I never appreciated Google's productivity software until I was forced to use Microsoft's at a large company. People just openly accept this broken system and the fact that they'll miss important communications and spend far too much time accounting for the SW's shortcomings.
FUCK Microsoft Outlook. The executives making decisions for the team's designing and maintaining that product are committing crimes against humanity.
I mean... it's not that bad. Missing important communications is a skill issue that doesn't get solved by a different product.
It actually does get solved with other systems. I can tell you that because I worked within Google platform for over a decade in the same industry, add with differs companies/environments and probably invested a total of 1-2 hours collectively in thought and setup deliberately for that system. It worked, and it improved over time.
Especially when outlook does things like give a notification that you've replied to a thread on a given date, but clicking that text doesn't jump to that mentioned reply AND the reply in question is not shown in line with the message you responded to.
I'm the last person to champion Google, but in comparison, Gmail handles conversational email threads intuitively and without deliberate setup or skill required. It follows the logical human expectation for the course of a natural conversation between parties. It also collapses less recent messages and surfaces more recent, relevant ones on longer term threads. But everything is logical and accessible.
I have a list a mile long of little features that have blocked me day to day in outlook mail and calendar that break productivity flow compared to gmail. They require deliberate setup and a learning curve to get something that feels close to usable and even then, glaring omissions in the product.
If your work isn't very complex and you don't communicate often (i.e. You're coding all day or reading/responding jira tickets), I can see you having that take. If you're forced to interact with these systems constantly though, it is objective trash. It's stale and afraid to change due to enterprise malaise and already approved workflows with said broken system.
I fucking hate it every day.
Honestly the fervor of which you're shitting on outlook has convinced me that it probably is a lot worse than I realize in comparison.
Down with outlook!