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My new office computer got Office 2013 on it...I'm with it less then a week, but can't look at Outlook without crying...
There is no any contrast between the areas even in the dark theme...You can not let the OS theme through...
You can set font size for messages to normal (11 - way too small) or big (14 - way to large), but nothing between...
It is just a nightmare...
for years I was able to work with Outlook, but now I'm seriously consider to move on...
I'm sure that someone at Microsoft had a serious head injury somewhere between 2007-2013...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I've been on Outlook 2016 for a few weeks now and isn't too bad.
Definitely agree with the 'someone had a bump on the head.....' statement.
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DaveAuld wrote: Definitely agree with the 'someone had a bump on the head.....' statement.
Several. Fist there was the aftermath of Vista, a brief recovery with Win 7 and from then on everything went steadily downhill.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Did they roll back any of the todo bar changes from 2013?
I tried it at home and then rolled back to 2010. 2013's headline regressions were only allowing a single month of the calendar to be shown (I have 4 up); and limiting calendar appointments to only looking 1 week ahead (1 day at release) vs 4 weeks. The net result was that I ended up with a big chunk of dead space on the lower right corner of my screen; and had to go to the calendar tab itself to maintain a decent overview of what's upcoming vs being able to see far enough ahead on the main view.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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What is it with these guys that they don't like contrast. Maybe if someone smashed them in the head again it would rebalance them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The queue starts in Redmond.
And the end is currently in Buenos Aires...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Since my morning rant the line stretched down to Patagonia...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The internet is littered with complaints about Outlook 2013.
Where I work we upgraded to Office 365 recently and without exception every person I have spoken to dislikes Outlook intensely.
Two things I did that have improved it slightly are to move the reading pane to the right and I selected an option to separate emails with a line(albeit very light lines).
The only conclusion I can come to is that in the spirit of 'improving' software some companies now break their user interface when quite simply it does not need changing, or it needed very few changes.
It would be like car manufacturers suddenly deciding to create a triangular steering wheel just to 'innovate' and 'disrupt' their competition. A steering wheel serves its purpose and does not need major changes with each release of a new car, so why can't the idiots who break user interfaces have the same level of intelligence?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The Ribbon is a good example as well.
Adds little or nothing, and makes it harder to find what you are looking for as well as taking up more screen real estate...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Thanks...Moving reading-panel to the side improved a bit...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: like car manufacturers suddenly deciding to create a triangular steering wheel just to 'innovate'
I liked the comparison.
I am was a .net developer over a decade but breaking change over the time broke my head and I am now almost shifted towards open source and other web development stacks. I still use .net MVC/WebAPI for server side, but, almost about to move to php 7 soon. 
For .net lovers, no offense please. I am still loving .net as my ex girl friend.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Two things I did that have improved it slightly are to move the reading pane to the right
You can do that in 2007 and 2010 as well. I'm almost certain it was doable in 2003 as well; but it's been too long since I used that version to be sure.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm very happy to read that I'm not the only one with this. TabSheets I liked, now I hate them
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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There are people still using Outlook in the 21st Century? Not just MS staff that have suffered head injuries obviously!
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I'm sure that someone at Microsoft had a serious head injury somewhere between 2007-2013...
The team head injury appended between 2003 and 2007.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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In 1951 Arthur C. Clarke wrote Superiority[^], a short story warning against overly fast technological change - 64 years later and we are still making the same mistakes that he was metaphorically warning against.
From a philosophical point of view - perhaps it's just that we are part of the universe and just as entropy increases in the universe so entropy increases in relationship to our behaviours.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I very honestly do not know what you are talking about.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: There is no any contrast between the areas
What areas ? In my version, if you mean preview, email lists, etc..., there are perfectly well defined.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: You can set font size for messages to norma
I can set the font for messages to pretty much every size available.
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Skype message:
"
Not far to go now...
You're just bla bla bla
For future updates, Skype may automatically install the latest version to your Computer ...bla bla bla...
"
Since skype is owning by MS Skype goes a very bad way!
Is there something similar other than skype you can suggest?
Thanks.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Walk over to the guy and just talk to him? Maybe?
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And in swiss german (easy) english you like to tell me what?
Very sorry I'm not native 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Swisscom Aktiengesellschaft.
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"Swisscom".... now it is not the cheapest one, but I'm still fan of it. Products are ok (at least for me) and Service -my experience- is great
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Pidgin.
On Linux
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Please in easy words I can understannnnnd. Pleaaaaassseeee
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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