Why is the "New" Outlook for Windows client so awful...deliberately???

I wish I could help you, but I don't know. Microsoft will never answer apparently

Does anyone know how to set "Rules" in this monstrosity of a program?

For example, is there a way of automatically deleting emails in Inbox that arrived before a certain date?

And where's someone from bloody Microsoft to answer these questions?

It just gets worse, and worse, and worse...

For the past couple of weeks or so, every few days the program asks me to sign in again, and when I do it has reverted to the default settings i.e. time is U.S. time, date is written in the U.S. way, and so on.

So I have to reset to Sydney/Canberra/Melbourne time, and to the Australian format for date. And save those settings. But saving the settings doesn't last, and a few days later, I then have to sign in again and reset the formats.

This is sheer madness.

The adverts are now filtering into one of my personal folders as well, and the junk is getting worse. I can find no way of setting the junk filter to counter this. Junk senders just change their address with every message, so junk prevention just does not work. The Classic Outlook

junk management actually worked.

If anyone can help we with these issues, please post.

Thank you.

Yeah, that would be worse!

I stepped away to make a cup of tea last night, and came back 5 minutes later to find that my Outlook window had been forced to the new version. Ugh!

Here are 2 gripes that I don't think have made the list.

1. If I multi-select messages, there's no option (that I can find) to 'forward as attachment'. Not in the menu that appears in the Reading Pane, not if I right click, not even on the button bar. In fact, even the regular forward button is disabled when more than 1 message is selected. My only option now is to create a new email and then drag and drop the selected emails to it. ANNOYING!
2. I'm often having to go through hundreds of alert emails. To do this efficiently, I would click on 1 message, hold down shift, and then use the arrow key to go up the email records 1 by 1. The reading pane would show me the content of the newly selected message so I could quickly review it before keying up to the next message. By doing this, I could hit delete 1 time for each batch of 20-50 messages. With the new Outlook, as soon as I select a second message the reading pane shows a menu rather than the email message. I have no choice but to select each message and delete 1 by 1, which takes forever! And, adding insult to injury, the animation on the pop-up to confirm the deletion is killing me! Do you have any idea how long it will take me to get through 100 emails 1 by 1 and deleting them 1 by 1?!

I lied. 1 more thing I hate...

3. What terrible use of 'real estate'! I hate the app buttons on the left column, and there's no option to move them. #&!@%

(editing to add more stupidity)

4. In old Outlook, after using the search bar I could click on the X on the right side of the bar to clear the search term. An X button would also appear on the ribbon so I could clear my search. In new Outlook, I see no means of clearing my search term other than manually deleting the term. I know this sounds insignificant, but all these extra clicks add up!