Lmao, if the emails of the CEO are being marked as irrelevant, then maybe it shows that it is actually working? Given what a blubber of nothing those messages usually are.

The focused inbox is bad enough without all of the AI shit

Microsoft is trying to find out how little they have to deliver before customers start evaluating alternatives, just like a good monopolist should. With their Office suite that can be very, very little, the lock-in is ironclad.

Did you already 'upgrade' your teams? 😁

And while we're at it, rate your last call!

Just remember that LLMs are good at one thing: summarizing large volumes of text with reasonable confidence.

AI isn’t a product for you. AI is a wet dream for the companies that built profiles on you.

The giant datacenters that steal away all the drinking water are there in order to “read your mind”. They know what you are and what you want before you do.

And this is so beyond advertising. Imagine having the power to understand the collective minds of most of humanity at once. Imagine being able to influence it.

They are even talking about building hives and becoming the queen bees. (Look up “network cities” or “Freedom cities”)

Everything is in the cloud now, including your personal and business documents. All software is a service. You can’t afford your own computer anymore, you don’t even have one of those old-fashioned things. You just have a tablet, and a phone. “I’m not a nerd, it’s all I need. That other stuff is too much work, I like how simple this is.”

Imagine suggesting alternative operating system and mailing service provider, collaborating with IT to get further specifics that could work for you and your office and presenting that to the big man up stairs showing the improved user usage and lower costs (and even probably way more secure too) and suggest to do a trial run with a few people even offering yourself towards the trial run before a full company deal over just to give proof along side well documented research. Windows may be a standard but it’s only because we think of it as one. Can easily suggest other companies to do the same and reach out to build partnerships and maybe even build a new standard with the testing and research you find.

Anywho that’s what we would suggest

Focused Inbox been the default for at least a few years now.

I find it interesting that my Google search engine results seem to differ substantially from yours

Query: “Outlook Focused Inbox Disable”

First result: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-disable-focused-inbox-82a4b339-dca3-45a3-bb6d-c4d1ce1b7c26

Second Result: https://www.reddit.com/r/UNC/comments/q1k18r/psa_you_can_disable_focused_inbox_in_your_outlook/

Third Result: https://helpdesk.tcsedsystem.edu/hc/en-us/articles/21715995066775-How-do-I-turn-off-Outlook-Focused-Inbox

Fourth result: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/focused-inbox-for-outlook-f445ad7f-02f4-4294-a82e-71d8964e3978

None of these stand out as being Generative AI to me, but maybe I’m missing something.

They had something similar some years ago (I checked, it was about 10 years, I'm old). I think it was named Clutter. Iirc it moved mails from recipients you tend to delete right away into a separate folder that was very subtle in letting you know that it has new connect.

It was a huge hilarious mess because it moved all notifications people painstakingly set up for themselves to the Clutter folder since people mostly read the notification, acted and deleted it and the "logic" concluded that these mails must be irrelevant then.

So the issue was less the sorting but specifically that the boss had his mails, probably correctly so, end up in the irrelevant bin?