Microsoft after changing the toolbar buttons layout in Outlook from horizontally aligned on the bottom to vertically aligned on the left edge:

"Yeah there is absolutely no way to fit the To Do and the Notes buttons together with the other three on the left edge. We need a popup menu there!"

Rotz...

But if there are too many buttons it's not clean! You gotta understand, it's for UX! Users get scared if there are too many buttons on a screen! (But also who needs clear, concise text labels and tooltips when you can have fifty buttons with a big icon and a metaphorical symbol in the corner with a single word solution domain metaphor for a tooltip)

I'm still salty that they removed the control panel where I could locate anything in a few attempts because there weren't several different scrollable regions sporting vastly differently sized buttons depending on how much Microsoft wants to prevent people from finding them.

@lorentz I’m all for text labels but MS didn’t find it necessary to put them on all the other icon buttons. It wouldn’t surprise me if those are not accessible at all.

Just checked: yup, not accessible.

microsoft office on a mac... who forces you to use such an abominable combination? the worst of two worlds.

@tosensei Nobody is forcing me. We use Office 360 at the company and I could use any email and calendar client (connecting via Exchange) but I like that Office combines both in a single app. It’s convenient.

I also have countless years of experience working with Windows and mac.
I definitely prefer the mac.

@tosensei Outlook sucks, but not as much as Teams. If we compare Outlook and Teams, Outlook is a state-of-the-art software

@crisz compared with teams, bashing your own head in with a rusty hammer is state-of-the-art software...

Docking and rearrangeable UIs are really *really* underrated.

Front end UX and UI designers spend way too much time thinking about what their users want to do instead of just cutting out all the decisions and complexity by letting users decide for themselves.