It also sends your IMAP credentials to their servers and receives the mail there, it’s not done locally like the older versions.
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The twisted reasoning is probably so that the users can access the emails anywhere with their live account (and so that MS can scrape those mails for all sorts of creepy shit)
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Just to do it, IMAP already covers using multiple devices on an email account.
„Better user experience“ they said.
@MangoPenguin yet their free tier for their cloud services is still lacking…
This is the worst part to me. All this just to “cloud sync” or something silly.
Kinda OT, but writing about privacy and then presenting an abysmal way to opt out of 160+ trackers is pure, hypocritical, rich irony.
Yes, I’m talking to you, ghacks.net.
Especially when it’s not even the original article
https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service
Remember when Microsoft pushed hard on marketing “don’t be Scroogled” for this stuff?
Good call. Here’s a snapshot of scroogled.com in 2013 from the wayback machine.
Google goes through every Gmail that’s sent or received, looking for keywords so they can target Gmail users with paid ads. And there’s no way to opt out of this invasion of your privacy. Outlook.com is different—we don’t go through your email to sell ads.
This didn’t age well. Not that Microsoft were above board back then either.
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Any outlook alternative that doesn’t look pre-dotcom? I really liked the Microsoft Mail app for its simplicity and the ability to have multiple inboxes, it’s a shame it is being replaced by outlook.
Thunderbird still isn’t too much of a looker, but it got a lot better recently after they added the vertical layout and made a bunch of smaller improvements. I’ve been using it for a few months now (after having avoiding it for maybe a decade), and I’m pretty enthusiastic about it.
uninstall the ‘new’ outlook app and use the ‘old’ mail app if you must. can at least do that, until they forcibly remove the old one and migrate users.
the new-look thunderbird is ok, as is emclient (proprietary but free-to-use version is available).
Mozilla Thunderbird is free and open source (foss)
Exactly. I mean there are numerous mail applications for Windows. We’re not limited to just mail apps from Microsoft.
always been
It’s a microsoft product, What the fuck do you expect?
