Windows 10: Unneccessary updates Outlook

Hi folks

I'm just as keen as people everywhere to keep systems up to date hopefully without too much bloat.

But I have to ask myself -- why are there so many updates to Office in general and in particular to Outlook.

I tested running Outlook Express on a Windows XP VM -- I'm not interested in all this "Work in teams" stuff etc -- OE still gives a nice simple GUI with as many accounts as you need with pop3 / imap or even exchange servers so PLEASE somebody tell me what is the purpose of about 97 zillion thousand updates for OUTLOOK.

OE worked absolutely perfectly -- not a smidgen of a problem with it !!!! and was fast and configuring it was also good -- Manual config didn't have problems with the latest things where the hideous "auto config" system has problems with different send / receive mail servers, different user logons for send / receive with different passwords.

I can understand new features say for EXCEL, POWERPOINT, PROJECT but for the rest of the suite -- seems pointless in the extreme.

OK XP these days -- security issues -- but why can't Ms release a "clone" of outlook express that runs stand alone on modern W10.

Actually there's no problems also running outlook express on a Windows XP VM if you set up security decently on the HOST.

PLEASE MS -- BRING BACK OUTLOOK EXPRESS !!!!!!

cheers
jimbo

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