Why does Outlook suck so much?

[Chakravartin]

Lew Zealand wrote:
It is a warmed over Entourage, renamed to make Mac people "feel better."

Entourage was a mature email client with a quirky interface.

Outlook is a whole new beastie.

If MS improves it at the same pace as they did with Entourage then we can reasonably expect Outlook to be a useful, stable and friendly product by 2020.