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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But that's mostly because Outlook is still holding us back. Come on, Microsoft, please let it die in peace already.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never going to happen, same for Excel.

Whatever future iteration of ChatGPT that eventually enslaves the human race will be using Outlook and Excel to keep track of the genocide.

[–] UnRelatedBurner 1 points 1 year ago

if AI is going to use Outlook, we are safe for a while longer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They actually made it worse in the latest version! They went from using the CSS2 standard, which was already like 20 years old, to using MS Word as the rendering engine. I would like to find whoever was in charge of that idea and slap them with a large trout. My guess is that they got a bonus by laying off whatever team was in charge of the CSS2 integration and saved a bunch of money by utilizing another program attached to some other team's budget. MS employees are always trying to shift their costs onto other teams.