Microsoft is pushing me towards Linux for my next OS. I’ve yet to make the jump due to time constraints, but I use many Linux OS in my homelab. I’d lose some functionality I’m used to with Windows but at this point the minor inconvenience it’d have outweighs the issues I’m having with thier forced decisions on their consumer base.
@Brkdncr@kbin.social (sorry, can’t reply directly for some reason?)
Its a much better app.
That should be up to each user to decide but as always Mircrosoft knows better than you what’s best for you. This “new Outlook” is actually a web-wrapper from Outlook.com running in Edge - you will have to use Edge and you will have to be logged in to Microsoft account - this is most likely the reason why they’re doing it.
It’s a pwa, you can use any browser you want that supports pwa (which is, at least, all chromium based browsers).
I have Outlook PWA (via Chrome) and I don’t have Edge installed.
I am growing very concerned with what it means that all of these large tech companies are willing to burn consumer good-will by making these wildly unpopular and barely justified decisions. Seems like each of the top 20 companies on the NASDAQ have made some kind of crazy unpopular change to their service in the last 6 months.
Fingers crossed that these changes will spur more people to invest into switching to open sourced software options.
MS is doing the same to Outlook users too at some point. Its a much better app. Windows mail/calendar were an oddity. Remember outlook express?
An oddity that has been around for a while. It was a fairly simple client on Windows 10 too. We used to use it for my mum to access her Gmail as it was so simple.
Moving from a local client to a Web based client is all about moving windows and it’s software to a cloud based service. For that to work all your data needs to be remote in the cloud too. This is about what is good for Microsoft, not it’s users.
And I decided to force my laptop to migrate to PopOS and I haven’t looked back.
It is amazing that after I spend several thousand dollars on nice hardware… some creep in Redmond Satya Nadella thinks he owns it because I paid him 50 bucks for a Windows license. I thought I was buying software to use my PC, not granting him a lincese to bloat it and spy my every click. Hey creep, why is this shit pinging home every time I click something?
Why does OS start spazzing out when I block non essential pings?
