Microsoft Outlook
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I’ve got every email going back 20+ years instantly searchable in outlook”
“This is why I use installable PWAs wherever possible. On my Android phone right now, the Outlook PWA uses 281kB.”
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“For at least 10 years now Outlook.com and Microsoft accounts have supported multiple aliases.”
Caveats and dissent
“only allow Microsoft's own protocol to enforce Outlook use and disabled IMAP access.”
“I did however have plenty of issues with search when syncing my work Outlook email via Mail.app”
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“Expect it's going to crash several times as microsoft continues to inject it's AI everywhere attitude.”
“When we migrated to Outlook there were non stop server side issues.”
Often compared with
2 moved from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook
2 moved from Google Workspace to Microsoft Outlook
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly 3 mentions
- Microsoft Teams is a red flag 2 mentions
- Thunderbird for iOS 2 mentions
- Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch 2 mentions
- Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 1 mention
- Sites in ChatGPT 1 mention
Also written as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook.com. Data: microsoft-outlook.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 33
“Open on my desktop right now: Slack, Outlook, Zoom, Windows Terminal, Edge, Claude, Obsidian, whatever the Windows image viewer is called, Cursor, and VS Code”
“only allow Microsoft's own protocol to enforce Outlook use and disabled IMAP access.”
“we use Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint as side products of Office”
“I did however have plenty of issues with search when syncing my work Outlook email via Mail.app”
“On the go I use a web browser on my phone for gmail or outlook.”
“what Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. did a quarter century ago”
“Expect it's going to crash several times as microsoft continues to inject it's AI everywhere attitude.”
“I just use the Web because it's the least weird and somehow faster than the new desktop app”
“When we migrated to Outlook there were non stop server side issues.”
“greatly preferred it to Outlook”
“many apps I use nowadays are on the web, Figma, Canva, google docs, outlook”
“I’ve got every email going back 20+ years instantly searchable in outlook”
“But they use Microsoft. So outlook and exchange.”
“Proton's performance is terrible, as is Outlook, not to mention it's search that just doesn't work.”
“I've got two versions of Outlook on my computer, neither of which is as quick to load as Thunderbird was 20 years ago.”
“Microsoft doesn't provide any way to download all your emails from outlook.com in one way to back them up”
“How people voluntarily pay for this crap is beyond me.”
“Outlook doesn’t.”
“Dear Lord, how has the software gotten this much worse in 19 years?”
“This is a known Outlook pain point it's notoriously sensitive to network configuration”
“The number of times I've gotten caught in an auth loop where I enter again and again my creds + tfa”
“Outlook start deleting all of his emails on loading Outlook after a minor update”
“the new Outlook is universally despised”
“who even knows if Microsoft Outlook for macOS even has a functional product team”
“even those of use locked away in enterprise fiefdoms with Outlook can make use of pinned messages”
“MS Outlook has switched from their native code to a WebView inside a wrapper and that means we're back in the 90s when it comes to email.”
“This is why I use installable PWAs wherever possible. On my Android phone right now, the Outlook PWA uses 281kB.”
“Local outlook was also too buggy in windows, I ended up running the web version.”
“For at least 10 years now Outlook.com and Microsoft accounts have supported multiple aliases.”
“the mobile version of Gmail produces different results than the mobile Outlook app than the desktop version of Gmail, and all of them are pretty terrible at search”
“I mostly live in Visual Studio and Outlook/Teams.”
I like Thunderbird, it’s a great tool for private use. One killer feature I always missed (not sure if it exists today by default in Thunderbird), is the great calendar integration of outlook. I use the calendar a lot, during work but also to organize our family. It’s super important for me to able to send invites to co workers and my wife :-)
“there is no MS setting to prevent these email reactions from going external”