I would gladly pay for a Windows 10 version of Outlook for iOS

February 9, 2016 John Obeto

$0.99? $1.99? $4.99? $9.99?

Heck, I would gladly pay $19.99 for a Windows desktop application or Metro app that mimics the UI and user-friendliness of Microsoft’s Outlook for iOS.

WITHOUT THE OVERBEARING HEAVY-HANDEDNESS of Microsoft Office Outlook!

Think about it.

Microsoft Outlook for iOS, both for iPad and iPhone, is lightweight, incredibly easy to use, very user-friendly, and just works. Well, when you don’t have to constantly clear out the cache, though they seem to have solved that issue.

For Windows, you have Microsoft Office Outlook, or that brain-addled Mail Metro app.

For connections to Exchange, you really can’t do better than Outlook. It does it all.

Outlook is, after all, Outlook. The ne plus ultra when it comes to email clients.

However, pre Windows 10 devices happily used the Windows Live Mail application, which is/was a part of the Windows Essentials suite. A suite that has NOT been updated since, well, forever, the current version being Windows Essentials 2012.

The Accompli purchase, and the subsequent substitution and rebrand of the former iOS Outlook client is simply, genius.

Microsoft took a rather excremental app, and with the wave of a magic in-place update, delivered a truly delicioso app that does it all: user-friendly, a great user experience, unobtrusive, everything!

I may be wrong, but I believe I read somewhere that it is the mI' wa' (Klingon) third-party email app in the Apple App Store. Yes, it is that good!

You would think that [the execs at] Microsoft would stub their collective big toes on proverbial rocks, and have an epiphany: “Let us deliver the same Outlook for iOS experience to Windows 10 users.”

No.

What Windows users have, is a rehash of the rather crappy Mail app that shipped with the late, unlamented Windows 8x.

Folks, that app is a piece of bovine dung!

I can hear the fanboi chorus clearing their throats, readying the mantra, “Antitrust, Antitrust .”

Calm the funk down, nitwits.

Please tell me that Mighty Microsoft cannot create an interstitial that enumerates the benefits of an enhanced and worthy Outlook client for Windows when users first start up the infernal Mail app!

And then proceed to help users seamlessly migrate their email accounts to that free Outlook client.

I don’t even want free.

I will gladly pay for it!

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