Outlook For Windows Will Soon Sync Email Signatures Across Devices (theverge.com) 24
Microsoft is finally bringing cloud support to Outlook for Windows email signatures. The Verge reports: Microsoft originally acknowledged that it was planning some type of sync support for Outlook signatures back in September, and the company says it will now roll this out in a June update. Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscribers will get access to cloud signature support in Outlook for Windows, allowing users to have a consistent signature across devices. Many companies have had to turn to custom solutions to implement Outlook for Windows signatures that roam across devices, so official support from Microsoft will be welcome. Microsoft is also planning to roll out a new text prediction feature for Outlook that's similar to Gmail's Smart Compose soon. The text predictions will allow Outlook.com and Outlook on the web to write emails for people using predictive tech that offers up suggestions while you type.
First thing to disable (Score:5, Insightful)
The text predictions will allow Outlook.com and Outlook on the web to write emails for people using predictive tech that offers up suggestions while you type.
I do not need any suggestions. I know what I'm writing. That this only slows down one's ability to type a coherent message, using exactly the words one wants to use in the manner of their choosing, is the reason it will be disabled.
Just like I turn off all those "suggestions" in Word. Since Word can't do a simple indented list correctly when you try to edit one of the lines, there's no way it should be offering any suggestions about the words I want to use.
As I have said before, Windows 10, and by extension crapware like this, is nothing but Clippy on double steroids.
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Be happy you can still turn them off.
On mobile OSes, or the web, it's customary to just assume you're nothing more than meat with eyes, and need every decision to be made for you, and it being the one that the dumbest common denominator would make.
The "simpler" those UIs get, the more cumbersome and limiting they become for anyone with more than half a brain.
But don't worry! Because soon, you will be used to it, and have adapted! By having become just as stupid as "everyone else"!
Until the ones that are now
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Ditto. I hate the autocorrect, autoformat, etc. I turn them off!
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I do not need any suggestions. I know what I'm writing. That this only slows down one's ability to type a coherent message, using exactly the words one wants to use in the manner of their choosing, is the reason it will be disabled.
Disabled by whom? Predictive text has not been disabled on any mobile device I have seen. In fact it is frequently actively used.
Since Word can't do a simple indented list correctly when you try to edit one of the lines, there's no way it should be offering any suggestions about the words I want to use.
It sounds very much like you want Word to learn how you write, rather than learn how to use Word. Indented lists work perfectly fine and completely consistently if you understand the software you're using.
I know, computers are hard. Maybe we should create software to make suggestions so it's easier for you.
If that is a newsworthy feature... (Score:1, Insightful)
... then how desperate is the Outlook team, to find something ... dear God, anything ... that justifies still paying them money for something, that was done and finished, a long time ago. :)
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Word was done and finished when it ran on terminals connected to Unix computers. When I say done and finished, it should have been abandoned then and there and no one should have ever been cursed with it again.
Outlook could do a huge favor.. (Score:4)
And not support fancy signatures at all.
No, I do not need your email to have some logo in the bottom and your contact info fancily formatted and make your most basic email be 512kb before you type a single letter. It does not make your email look professional and all it does is clog up my mailbox with many copies of your inane logos.
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and all it does is clog up my mailbox
If this was 1995 I'd agree with you. But "clog up your mailbox"? It's 2020, we're talking about business and enterprise subscriptions to Office 365. These come with 50GB mailboxes as the lowest tier subscription.
I think your "clog" will be fine.
It does not make your email look professional
Also I disagree with this. Seeing a company logo with consistent colour scheme in a footer with easily identifiable contact information visually distinguished from name and position not only looks professional, but actually makes it easier on the reader to quickly fl
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If this was 1995 I'd agree with you. But "clog up your mailbox"?
My work permits 2GB of mail per user. Over the months those half-MB emails add up fast.
Seeing a company logo
The random marketing image that may or may not be the company logo is not at all helpful. If I'm looking for an email from a particular company, I'm going to use the search function of my mail client, not click emails and scroll until I happen to see the logo I want. Besides that some peer mail clients/systems will mangle things such that your email with dumb but ok looking inlined images becomes a text mail with a bunch
Sigh (Score:3)
23 fucking years.
To add a simple, obvious, oft-demanded feature. Where the 3rd party solutions cost a damn fortune and are all per-platform bodges.
23 fucking years.
This is why I hate Microsoft - they get to a point where they stop giving a shit and the simplest of features never appears, but they spend ages pissing about with stuff that nobody wants.
I've spent more time explaining to people "It just doesn't work like that, sorry, we either have to pay a fortune (per user per year) for software to do this for us, roll our own, or manually do it" than I care to mention, god knows how much that's cost the millions of other admins worldwide.
And why the fuck does this need cloud? Why couldn't this be put into the ActiveSync protocol so you can retrieve it in a sensible way from any device (similar to the way that you have to jump through hoops to get user images programatically)? It's only HTML / text.
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Sometimes new shiny thing is not an improvement.
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90+ percent of users will never access 1/4 of the features in Office 4.3, pretty much everything added since then is fluff IMNSHO.
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And why the fuck does this need cloud?
It's 2020. It doesn't need the cloud, rather the default is now the cloud. Expect everything to be cloud first, not because of some technological requirement but because all users both business and enterprise are getting cloud offerings first and use old systems like ActiveSync as a legacy support service.
Next you'll tell me you still run ActiveDirectory on a server like some chum from the 00s.
Now do rules! (Score:4, Insightful)
Magic 8-ball says (Score:1)
Outlook not very good
Still the worst email client in history (Score:2)
Just utter and complete garbage.
But, hey, at least it lets you book meetings. Because that's more important in an email client than actually handling email well.