I hate Outlook! It's a mail client from hell, its diabolity now powered by an intrusive Artificial Idiocy interferring with any mail I try to write, popping up undesired autocomplete suggestions and driving me mad! Microsoft, by forcing your CoPilot-shit on your users, you have degenerated the entire MS office package into a FUCKING USELESS UX!

Still better than gmail, that‘s also only available in the browser.

@Lensflare

I take your word for it. I don't trust Google a bit. At least Microsoft is the lesser bad out of these two.

Fortunately, it's possible to disable this nuisance! :)

It's just so typical of Microsoft to stuff their apps with shitloads of bloat that takes time to figure out how to get rid of.

@Lensflare "only in browser" tempts me to say IMAP+Thunderbird, but the last major Thunderbird UI update ain't no rainbows either

"this thing sucks, but major platforms are using it, so we'll use it too" seem to be the main sw dev driver lately

I hate having my mail in a web browser.

...that's why Thunderbird has been my good friend for years.

@D-4got10-01 after a month we will be forced to use gmail for work emails. Then I will look if I can make it work with thunderbird.
I hate to be forced to use anything in a browser, not just mail.
But that‘s exactly what will happen, unfortunately.

@Lensflare Yup. Forced to use Gmail at work, too.

Same sentiment for software running in browsers.

Especially when it's heavy && slows it down.

@Lensflare the problem is eveyrthing is becoming a web app today.

"get our new desktop app... actually, f*you, it's just a PWA, but we've made sure you can't run extensions to block the pieces you hate."

@qwwerty

This is precisely what Atlassian do. I hate their last update of Jira with annoying suggestions in comments. Tried blocking them with AdBlocker, which either only blocked them on a specific Jira issue, or caused the entire page to go blank. Why can't there just be a fucking setting to disable any bloat? What's next? Animations? Auto-AI-generated comments? Fuck you, all tech companies who believe that users actually want to be distracted by senseless, impersonal bloat! Keep it simple, stupid!