No, that's been the Outlook experience since probably forever.
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You’re not alone. We’re forced to use Classic Outlook at work.
I’ve got a monthly recurring appointment for a Zoom call. That was due today again. There was the switch to winter time last week and Outlook decided to “adjust” the scheduled time for me.
That meeting was originally for 11am and should continue to be at 11am during standard time. However, yesterday I’ve noticed that Outlook put it at 10am (and showed a proud message that it adjusted it due to timezone change). No way to undo it.
Teams continued to show it at 11am where it belongs.
Now, when trying to move it to 11 in Outlook, Teams moved it to 12.
And when I opened Outlook this morning, the appt was at 11am where it belongs and Outlook and Teams agreed again.
Mind you, this was only this external Zoom call. All other appointments are still correct. Very weird.
Sounds like the organizer was in a different timezone.
I thought so, too, at first. But why did Teams (using the "New Calendar" setting) show it correctly? And why did it fix itself today?
Because Software as a service is such a lovely thing (not for the user). Every day a new experience!
I just found a pattern. Monday, where it was showing up 1 hour earlier, I was connected to my M365 Cloud PC via my home Macbook. Then, the appt (only this one) showed up wrong.
Yesterday, I was using that same Cloud PC from my work (Windows-)laptop and the appt showed up at the correct time.
Today, I’m using the exact same Cloud PC - without rebooting - from my Macbook again and Outlook shows it wrong again.
So, that virtual machine that’s called Cloud PC does something different depending on the system you’re connecting from. How stupid is that?
Remember when lotus notes was good?
The more shit you tack onto something the worse it gets.
Outlook classic is on life support. Next October Exchange Online drops support for it.
It’s built on decades of code. It allows plugins to directly affect the UX. It still uses I explore at times.
I switched to new outlook and while it has its own significant issues, at least it’s not spaghetti code. It also runs on top of Edge, which allows Outlook devs to ignore a lot of backend code, and makes the UX pretty consistent across platforms.
Sadly I'm still bound to classic Outlooks because of a lot of clients dependent on COM add-ins.
Yeah those com addins are usually the problem with outlook stability. Simply moving to modern addins improves Outlook classic significantly.
There is no simply moving here sadly, the plugins simply aren't available. Hooray for vendor lock-ins.
Try dragging a folder inside another folder in your inbox and watch it disappear.
Just remember, the only way to get a consistent experience across all users is to design to the least common denominator. In this case that means designing for a program that runs in an Internet browser.
That's why the more advanced features have been disappearing over time. That's why the older versions start having weird problems. That's why they are dumbing everything down and making it less powerful.. so it can run in edge.
Flick the switch to new outlook. It’s way less shit.
Apparently Microsoft is already planning to kill the "new" Outlook with some AI native "new new" Outlook. So don't get used to it too much I guess. Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/806162/microsoft-outlook-ai-overhaul-notepad
Unless you want to send a hyperlink to a intranet address, then you're SOL.
I am just a user and not administering anything here, but holy fuck my mailbox is almost full, and yet I can't delete more than a couple of emails at once without crashing Outlook.
I can't believe how many wacky UI glitches this app has, and how many ways I can crash it from normal use. It's not my PC either - coworkers have similar problems.
Yeah, I use outlook in a browser and it's been doing weird shit I hate.i presume this to be by design.
If I try to add a hyperlink to an email it will insert the image I line, which isn't what I want. They added big obnoxious banners, and there's a placeholder advertising a premium version of outlook under it if you block it
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