Everything this company touches is shit. Unbearable.

Outlook is probably the worst software I encountered. I have seen relative being reduced to tears because she was not able to find her important emails and genuinely thought they were gone only to find out Outlook search is so crap it wouldn't find them despite getting literal sentences that were in those emails. I also particularly like merging unrelated email threads into one so you end up not following what the threads are about. The focused view is the best. It hides the emails you actually care about from you. Software like this should be illegal to distribute.

Similar one about WhatsApp on Windows. What a shitshow.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/13/whatsapp-is-eating-...

Why is anyone still using Windows in a year greater than 2010?

New outlook also pre loads ads and it takes a few seconds for the paid verification to go through before the ads go away. Very frustrating clicking on the first email at load time only to realize it is an ad. Just the icing on the sh*t cake.

How else would we know Microsoft is still Microsoft?

It's the "blink twice if you're okay" test for them.

On a side note, how long did it take for IBM to go from being everywhere to becoming irrelevant?

I have ~3 lower/mid range Linux laptops and 1x mid/high range windows gaming laptop. It's amazing how slow the windows machine is despite being an absolute beast compared to the linux machines, which have way worse specs.

I wonder how many MS engineers are lamenting how superior Classic Outlook is for AI integration. COM and VBA let cc do pretty much everything.

Copilot is now helping you out :)

Honestly, for most intents and purposes, we could have just stopped with Outlook 2010. I'd have paid $5/mo for security patches.