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The Outlook update...

Red Whacker

Red Whacker

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... is absolute dogshit!

How I wish I could lodge a rusty nail into the idiots that thought all these changes were necessary.

Rage GIF
 
what as in Outlook E-mail?
 
I still use hotmail. Yesterday Outlook was different, but today it looks back the way it was. Maybe too many people complained.
 
I am forced to use it for work.

At least it'll give me two weeks, maybe a month if I push it, of excuses to cover for my lazy ass.
  • "Sorry boss I didn't see your urgent email. The new outlook sent it straight to the junk folder."
  • "I swear I sent it yesterday! Check your spam folder unless the update caused it to be perma-deleted."
  • "What! That's the outlook update! I would never send you an email to go fuck yourself!"
I can make this work after all.
 
It should categorically not be a thing, but here we are.
 
I clicked on this thinking "surely he's not talking about..."

Well, yes. You were.
 
Red Whacker said:
I am forced to use it for work.

At least it'll give me two weeks, maybe a month if I push it, of excuses to cover for my lazy ass.
  • "Sorry boss I didn't see your urgent email. The new outlook sent it straight to the junk folder."
  • "I swear I sent it yesterday! Check your spam folder unless the update caused it to be perma-deleted."
  • "What! That's the outlook update! I would never send you an email to go fuck yourself!"
I can make this work after all.
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I use Outlook for work also, but we have the option to still use the old Outlook if we want.
 
I say again, one of the things I miss about living in the Pacific Northwest is, if I finally had alls I could stand I can'ts stands no more, I was about a 3 hour drive from being able to burn the Microsoft campus to the ground.
 
My Alienware laptop had a forced Windows update today -- when the reboot finished, Outlook opened automatically.

I didn't even know it was loaded on my laptop. Dafuq?
 
Oh, and I've said this before: Hotmail. Hotmail was great, because in the days of dial-up and land lines, you'd get your e-mail address from your ISP. So every time you moved you changed your ISP (and phone number) (That sounds so surreal after close to a generation with cell phones and broadband.) Anyway, they Hotmail came along and it was great. You had a permanent e-mail address. You could link it to Outlook or Thunderbird for a mail client interface or you could just use the Web-based interface. Then Microsoft bought to take out the competition it was giving its own products--and proceeded to enshitify it. Eventually they started calling it "Outlook" and even changed the URL. So I still have a @hotmail address, but it is now on outlook.com (or whatever the URL is).

The other funny thing: You know how, sometimes you remember something being really really good and then you get to experience it and are shocked by how shitty it turns out it was--it was just better than anything else you'd used at the time? Once I wondered if maybe Hotmail was like that, so I Googled screencaps of the old interface and I was wrong. 1998 Hotmail was fucking amazing. No ads and all the features something like Outlook or Thunderbird had. It was basically Outlook Web Access for free.
 
Hotmail sends all the "I hacked your laptop camera and filmed you wanking..." blackmail emails to my Junk folder. What if one of them is real!
 
Hotmail used to be pretty easy to hack about 20 years ago... especially if you knew the person and could guess their security question, like "what is the name of my dog?"

I think they're on two-factor identification like every one else now.
 
Starship Coyote said:
Hotmail used to be pretty easy to hack about 20 years ago... especially if you knew the person and could guess their security question, like "what is the name of my dog?"

I think they're on two-factor identification like every one else now.
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I have those sliding camera covers on both my laptops I MEAN WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
 
Volpone said:
Oh, and I've said this before: Hotmail. Hotmail was great, because in the days of dial-up and land lines, you'd get your e-mail address from your ISP. So every time you moved you changed your ISP (and phone number) (That sounds so surreal after close to a generation with cell phones and broadband.) Anyway, they Hotmail came along and it was great. You had a permanent e-mail address. You could link it to Outlook or Thunderbird for a mail client interface or you could just use the Web-based interface. Then Microsoft bought to take out the competition it was giving its own products--and proceeded to enshitify it. Eventually they started calling it "Outlook" and even changed the URL. So I still have a @hotmail address, but it is now on outlook.com (or whatever the URL is).

The other funny thing: You know how, sometimes you remember something being really really good and then you get to experience it and are shocked by how shitty it turns out it was--it was just better than anything else you'd used at the time? Once I wondered if maybe Hotmail was like that, so I Googled screencaps of the old interface and I was wrong. 1998 Hotmail was fucking amazing. No ads and all the features something like Outlook or Thunderbird had. It was basically Outlook Web Access for free.
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With my first computer (in '94), I started out on AOL only. Then I started learning about ISPs and I joined Earthlink, and suddenly I had a dozen email accounts for different uses. But I also was a big nerd and I wanted a cool domain name of my own, so I bought one and changed ISPs, and suddenly I had a dozen custom email addresses instead. I started out managing them in Outlook, but then Thunderbird came along, which I still use. But Thunderbird has never been perfect and it's a pain to manage so many email accounts, most of which just get spam/junk, so along the way I started collecting Gmail addresses too, since they're so much easier to handle online and you get all the other features too...

Fast forward to now, I still have a dozen custom emails, more than a dozen gmal accounts, but I regularly use only a few of each. And most of my important emails just come to my Apple account on my iPhone and iPads...
 
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