Business Card view

Wow. I can't believe Microsoft removed the business card functionality all together. Crazy! How are you supposed to easily share business contacts across your network? For so many years, I thought this was an area where Microsoft could provide a more robust experience and improve the efficiency of sharing and saving out contacts ... never in a million years did I think they would get rid of it! How disappointing. Someone should develop a plugin or better yet, Microsoft, bring it back!

Wish there was a function where AI could scan email signatures and offer to directly save out to Contacts. Saving out Contacts shouldn't be such a time consuming process. So unfortunate.

or, another idea:

Add a function to hover over someone's email addresses within an email chain, and be able to save out their full contact details. For example, a person can opt to fill out their own contact details in a profile and share with anyone within Outlook on an email chain! So often there are folks on copy, who you don't know their titles, phone, etc and would be nice to be able to just save them directly to contacts from an email address.

Completely agree - doesn't seem to me like there was a lot of focus group work in this development process...

VanlandinghamR - I absolutely agree with you. This was a major advantage of the MS platform that set it apart from other email apps. Very disappointing to hear they are discontinuing it.

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