Replacing Outlook with whatever it is the "New Outlook" is supposed to be is so bad that Microsoft shareholders should get involved. It is a total destruction of value.
It's just bizarre. Probably 80% of corporations are paying Microsoft billions of dollars really just so they can have Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Excel. What makes it valuable is precisely that it is a "legacy" app people have used and built on for decades.
What does MS possibly stand to gain by replacing it? It's a mature application you can pretty much just leave in maintenance mode, with just a couple new features per release (I guess the new hotness would be adding AI or something.) How does it make sense to spend developer-time building an inferior (from a customer perspective) copy and then eliminate one of the reasons your customers choose you?
Those corporations often pay that money through IT departments that are somewhat distant from how the software is used. They are focused on security, manageability, maintenance, legal requirements, help desk workload etc. If it makes those things easier then it is a superior product for those people.
Also, this kind of move gets Microsoft closer to a world in which a workers laptops is like a Chromebook. Everything running in a walled garden of cloud, electron app, and browser tabs. And Microsoft providing the tooling as part of Azure. In the name of security they get to charge rent on everything. Need a fast GPU or more disk space? Rent it from Azure. Need a developer/ai environment? Rent it from Azure. It is a way of creating artificial scarcity and then charging people to escape that.
It depends. Old Outlook keeps failing me, in ways the new, dumb web app has not (yet):
- Not sending e-mail unless I am restarting it (I added Outbox to Favorites to catch this before hours have gone by)
- Crashing when I try to add an attachment, and loosing my drafted email
- Claiming it's out of memory and hence can't add my signature.
Now, granted, all this maybe due to incompentence at my workplace, or me having "too much email or calendars", but boy does Outlook get in the way of me getting work done. I've run into all of this over the last week, BTW.
I'm not saying you aren't experiencing that, but I've never heard of those complaints before and if they were remotely common there is no way Outlook would be used so much that we are at a point of people complaining it will go away.
Presuming Apple left PWAs in just as they were with no changes, i.e. hardcoded to Safari, wouldn't Mozilla (and potentially MS) have immediately sued or complained that Apple was in violation of the DMA by not allowing their browser engines to launch from user added home screen icons?
If this is the case then leaving PWAs as they stood risked bazillions in fines from the EU. No?
1. pay some macOS developers if iOS developers are that bad and implement necessary changes on a weekend since both OS are linux and macOS is capable (and they had years)
2. if Apple wants to play the oh-so-difficult card, they have to prove according to DMA why is it so much of a burden, which they cannot because it is not... still, they could have talked to EU to get an exemption to keep Safari web apps unbroken until they make the necessary changes that every web browser is ready to use web apps on iOS
what they did is to break all iOS web apps because they were only possible in Safari, fight one additional year with EU then allow them again after they lost
is not that evil? they dare this because it is only a minority of their users that uses web apps now...
Apple had 15years to deal with alternative browser engines and they buried their head in the sand the whole time while racking in the money. Arguing it's hard to deal with all the cases within a few months is just giving them excuses for dragging their feet for so long.
There is a cloud-based system which will be the successor of Horizon legacy (from 1999) and Horizon online (from around 2010).
>Is Horizon still being used?
>Yes. There have been several versions of Horizon since its introduction in 1999 and the current version of the system, introduced from 2017, was found in the group litigation to be robust, relative to comparable systems. But we are not complacent about that and are continuing to work, together with our postmasters, to make improvements.
We will be moving away from Horizon to a new IT cloud-based system that will be more user-friendly and easier to adapt for new products and services. This is currently being developed with the involvement of our Postmasters.
This kind of comment (not your actual comment) shows the pitifully simplistic people making crucial decisions in UK public IT. On prem vs off prem
has nothing to do with this yet cloud is phrased as a key tenet of improvement. I suppose give it a few years it'll be described as "LLM ready" too.
