You don’t have to use that for your private email though.

This is what is so annoying with companies these days. Microsoft has them by the #%!!$ and they’ll continue taking all the productivity loss and other risks just so someone can check a box and say “We trust in Microsoft to manage this, and we’re off the hook.”

There are solutions like the Owl extension for Thunderbird, but that’s for the adventurous ones who want to take risks.

The online school I’m attending is like this with its email. My options are to run the Outlook for Mac desktop app (which oddly seems to be a different beast than “new” Outlook on Windows) or keep Outlook webmail open in a tab. Not even Apple Mail via its Exchange support is permitted.

I ultimately landed on keeping the desktop app open to reduce browser clutter and for the icon notification badge so I don’t miss any important emails.