Microsoft Outlook

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “microsoft outlook thinks it knows best and underlines every single word in my emails because I don't write them in the same language the UI is set to. Great help!”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “Outlook feels like it has completely been forgotten by Microsoft. I don't recall the last time they updated anything meaningful in the product (at least on macOS), it's quite a mess of a product.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-09

• “Frequent frustration past week for me: The integrated button to join a Microsoft Teams meeting directly from my Microsoft Outlook Calendar doesn't work”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-10-23

• “the desktop version of Microsoft Outlook is much better than the web app”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-16

• “Microsoft created Notes and Journal bceame a "legacy app." It was not possible to migrate. The deprecation of the .PST file in Exchange Server left me no way to transfer”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-11

• “it's been a toxic relationship to say the least. Microsoft has a notoriously bad and non-intuitive API. It takes a (long) while to get the hang of it.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-07-09

• “Microsoft Outlook has a bug when you click on the notification after you receive an email, it opens it behind other windows”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-03-25

• “microsoft outlook sucks… I tried to sort in reverse my inbox to see what's the oldest email there and "the request cannot be satisfied"”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-01-14

• “Microsoft outlook stops me from sending bank wire details over email”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-12-12