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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (16 children)

What's MS's plan after this? Everyone I know that uses Windows/M365 hate it more with every passing day and is looking to leave.

I really don't want to be in tech support in 2029 when they kill off old outlook. There will be blood on that day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Sounds like you live in an echo chamber. Windows is still by far the most popular computer operating system, and it’s not even close. There’s no sign of people moving away from Windows en-masse. Windows 11 adoption has been massive.

[–] SpaceCowboy 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like you live in a contrarian chamber. People really do hate the "new Outlook" (basically it's just Hotmail) and Windows 11 adoption has been slower than for most other versions of Windows. The requirements often mean needing to buy a new computer which a lot of people can't afford, especially if prices go up because of tariff nonsense.

There will be a lot of people still running on out of support Windows 10 systems at the end of the year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

New outlook is a steaming pile. Classic Outlook has some very handy features and unless Evolution pulls its finger out, I will continue to use classic Outlook. Hell, I used Outlook 2010 until last year.

It met my needs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Running out of support windows is nothing new. The point was that people would rather do that than switch to Linux. People aren’t leaving to Linux instead any great numbers.

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