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I installed it and was starting to like it. I really, really love Google Inbox and want it so desperately to support our hospital Outlook server.

It never occurred to me that installing "Microsoft Outlook for Android" would mean "upload all your hospital email to some acquihired cloud". When Google abandoned the Email app in Lollipop and forced us all to add our Outlook accounts to the Gmail app, I was concerned (Google does explain quite clearly that this is just a UI thing and that it's not merging the email into the Gmail servers at all) that I would have to go back to those abominations in the Play Store since all the Outlook clients on Android suck and K9 refuses to work with our Exchange server. And here Microsoft releases Outlook for Android and I was all excited for nothing.

Thank god I didn't receive any emails containing PHI while I had it enabled.




Try touchdown instead?


Touchdown has always been buggy (it loves to go into battery-draining fits) and is extremely buggy on Lollypop. It also hasn't been updated in tech-eons.

It is so extremely frustrating to have to deal with a corporate Outlook server on Android. That's why I was excited that Microsoft finally put out something.


Shame this is simplistic to the point of nearly being useless.




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