Outlook icon on a screen with a finger about to touch it.
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It's the simplest, most important technologies that can make us, break us, or turn us into vehement public kvetchers.

Take email. You want it to work in a simple way. You want the people who created it to know how you use it and you want them to adjust to it.

Instead, it drives you toward a heightened level of conniption. So much so that you're forced to make a TikTok video.

That, at least, is what happened to TikTok user @maselreb.

She offered[5] a mere twenty seconds of skillful diatribe. It began: "Outlook[6] was created by a person who was never once in their entire life needed to email a single person, do a single f***ing thing via electronic mail."

It's a stirring beginning to a speech. Which she followed with: "They're using a carrier pigeon because there's simply no f***ing way."

Also: How to recall an email in Outlook[7]

A negative Outlook

Having never talked on TikTok, I imagine many people just put their feelings out there and conceive that perhaps no one will see them.

Yet here I sit, a mere day after @maselreb spoke her piece and it seems the world's very sense of peace was disturbed.

More than 1.1 million views, 220,000 likes, and beyond 3,000 comments suggest many people have inordinately firm feelings about Microsoft's[8] email service.

Please imagine, though, that

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