Please provide option to DISABLE drag-and-drop editing and "smart" text selection.

These two "features" causes me a lot of grief trying to edit wordings of a sentence. While trying to deal with smart selection that insists on selecting the entire word rather than a portion of it (or selecting additional elements not intended) that some how turned into a drag-and-drop editing, which then further screws up the editing. Frequent undos resulted and resorted to deleting and retyping the entire word or portion of the sentence.

These features are supposed to help, not get in the way of the writer. I understand some people like these "features", but for the rest of us, please provide option to DISABLE them.

I suggest you enable RSS feeds for Mac. I really do. I know I'm not the first. I saw this posted previously and the response was:

"Thank you for your feedback, we have reviewed this feature, unfortunately, we will not be implementing this feature as this does not align with our overall goals. Thank you for your continued participation in making Outlook for Mac better."

Clearly we are not participating in making Outlook for Mac better. It won't happen because it doesn't align with "your' goals. I imagine the consumer goals are not important.

My question is, what does having RSS feeds have that is in direct conflict with your goals? The level of functionality is not overly difficult to include, at this point it is fairly standardized. From a UX perspective, it shouldn't have a significant impact to the rest of the functionality.

I would understand if it was a major overhaul, but let's be clear, it's not. As someone who works in creation of user interfaces, I don't know why it wouldn't be taken under potential consideration rather than a hard "no".

I'm just trying to address your BS response to force additional transparency as to WHY it is not aligned with your goals and why you would choose to not only not include it on Macs when available on PC software, and what the possible reason could be if your consumer base finds it a useful professional feature. I'm more disgruntled over your response rather than the decision to not use a useful feature.

so... what ARE your overall goals?

I originally signed up for a Office 365 account using a Gmail address, not realizing Outlook also had a free account. I was switching internet providers and did not want to lose my emails and contacts. Since I had purchased the 365 product, I figured I would use the outlook program for my email, only to find out I could not import my contacts from my webmail account. The files were not compatible. Also not being able to access the webmail emails through the online outlook is inconvenient. Now I have a 365 account with a Gmail email address and an Outlook account with an outlook email. I would prefer to only have one account. Being able to merge them would be great!

Improve the notifications around emails that fail to send due to size to make them harder to miss. The pop-up notification is tiny, blends with the wallpaper, and is hidden behind other windows occupying the bottom left corner of the screen if you have already clicked away from the outlook window. These attributes make it very easy to miss that a large email has not sent but has been moved instead to the drafts folder. An email stating that your email has not been sent due to size would be much more effective and would match what happens when you send and email that is too large to be received. Otherwise a pop-up in the centre of the screen that interrupts what you are doing would also be a lot more effective than the current system.