
And every featured added has the potential to negatively affect the overall operation and performance of the main code. It seems every user has some feature they say they can’t live without and demand it be added. Feature creep is one thing Apple resists and gets raked over the coals for it. All of MS products are bloated to the point 90% of the features are worthless to most users. I can understand the need to drive adoption among ignorance young people, but how are they offsetting the cost of that? What motivates them to make it better now that it is free? These are the important questions I wish the article would have answered. It also makes me worry what's going to happen now that MS is making Outlook free. Why people these days think there needs to be a FREE LUNCH everywhere is disturbing. As if we need Ads to mar the UI! Not on your life, buddy! I guess from reading the nutty previous comments that most people are simply ignorant of the fact Outlook is better than Mail and just boast about Mail being better anyway, maybe because they don't need to pay for Mail.Īnd as to the crazy notion that the entire office suite should be "FREE". That's not to say MS Outlook is perfect, and I detest the fact it tells me to update to the NEW OUTLOOK on the monthly basis despite the fact there is a bug that prevents me from accessing mail in the New Outlook, keeping me in the old UI, but the old UI is what I know and love, so it matters little.Ĭurious what drove them to do this. It's been BETTER, oh yes, MUCH BETTER, than Apple Mail for longer than Apple Mail even existed! Back in the day, I also used Claris Emailer and loved that too. I've been using the paid version since Entourage. Select Done to start using Outlook 2016 for Mac.Not sure where these crazy forum comments are coming from.Have you already added your Gmail account to Outlook then see, Improved authentication for existing Gmail users. This is for users who are on Build 0902 and higher. If you are adding Gmail, you will get a prompt within Outlook to sign-in to your Google account.If adding a Yahoo, or other IMAP or POP account, you might be taken to those sites and asked to allow Outlook to access your mail, contacts, and calendars.(Your screen might look different from this one depending on the account you’re adding.) Click the plus ( +) sign > New Account.

