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Another reason to hate on Microsoft (Outlook contact files)
« on: April 14, 2025, 12:48:35 PM »
"Old" Outlook let you take contacts and do a quick right-click forward to email as an Outlook Contact file. Recipient could simply drag-n-drop the file into their contacts. No muss, no fuss. Easy and simple. My group used the function A LOT to keep our building email distribution lists current.

New Outlook, not so much. No simple way to send the contact. Also no way to simple drop a received contact file into your Contacts list. I reverted both my machines to Old Outlook as a result, though I know that will likely get quickly nerfed and I'll be forced into the current version.

Damn you, Microsoft. Stop screwing around with stuff that works.

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Re: Another reason to hate on Microsoft (Outlook contact files)
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2025, 04:02:54 PM »
I nuked the "new" Outlook within hours after Mother Microsoft tried to force it on me. It's pretty terrible.
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Re: Another reason to hate on Microsoft (Outlook contact files)
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2025, 04:12:54 PM »
"If your computer isn't broken, we'll fix it until it is."
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Re: Another reason to hate on Microsoft (Outlook contact files)
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2025, 07:12:01 PM »
They have Thunderbird for Android now too! (It's rebranded K9 mail but it works well on a mobile device)
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