My work place forced us to upgrade from Entourage 2008 Mac -> Outlook 2011 Mac.   I find the new mail client super annoying.  I'm so temped to move away from Outlook and onto something like Mozilla Thunderbird or .... Apple Mail (which I try to stay away from).   Since I can't go back to Entourage 2008 (our IT upgraded Exchange that prevents me from going back to Entourage 2008).  Here's my annoyance:

1)  the jumping back to inbox:  what happens is when I'm in a subfolder, sometimes it auto-jump back to inbox.  Very annoying (people are complaining about the same thing on Mac rumor)

2)  WHY did you remove selecting a topic??  (eg. "2 weeks ago" or the name of the person/topic you're sorting on to select all messages).   Instead, I have to select the top message, scroll down, shift select the last message.  (I was able to do this fine in Entourage 2008/2003)

3)  that brings me to annoyance #3:  sometimes, doing #2 causes the selection I just made to UNSELECT.  If I were to set all to "read" or "unread", it de-selects, causing me to do #2 several times.  Sometimes, if I were to first select the last message, scroll to top, then SHIFT click the 1st message, it auto-unselects.  Doing #2 over and over again gets old fast.

4)  search.  WHY would you mess with that?  I hate Apple spotlight and have it turned off.  This disables message search.  (this was awesome on Entourage 2008/2003)

5)  some of the filters (after upgrading from Entourage 2008 Mac) doesn't work anymore.  They disobey all rules and mailing list manager.  There's a group I want to filter but ... even if I were to change the rule, add a new rule, or turn off ALL rules - it never obeys them  Something is very whacked ... it's like you guys programmed mini-skynet into Outlook... (and no, I'm not interested in trashing my database and start over)

Come on guys, you guys went from awesome = Entourage 2008/2003 to junk = Outlook Mac 2011.  Please do something or suggest a workaround.  Make me a believer of Office product once again!