> It’s worth noting that you’ll have to sign in to your Microsoft account to use Rewrite, as it’s “powered by a cloud-based service that requires authentication and authorization.”
They are truly data leeches trying to lap at any cut you might have for a bit of tasty data.
It’s pretty obvious after their data grab with the new Outlook. They destroyed the built-in app which I used all the time just to try to get all of my emails.
The New Outlook(tm) is an Edge Webview to the cloud.
In the stupidest twist of fate, you cannot open Outlook offline, at all. There is no concept of "offline" in the New Outlook. I assume this is Microsoft forcing away the issues of the past of 50+GB OST files by making Outlook a glorified webmail client instead.
Oh, and Microsoft Teams? You can open that offline and it's got a full cached experience. Innovation at its finest!
This is just so sad. It's not bad, it's to be such a great application and something which had endured the whole Microsoft enshittification. But I guess even that falls.
They are truly data leeches trying to lap at any cut you might have for a bit of tasty data.