Yet another bad sample from Microsoft

Recently I played a bit with the Microsoft Azure Information Protection add-in for Outlook which helps classify, label and protect sensitive data in your organization, based on a simple and intuitive end-user interface and IT policies. And here is what I see in Outlook:
A ribbon UI error which comes from the Azure Information Protection add-in
a ribbon UI error which comes from the MS add-in

It is a shame for MS developers to produce such software being a well-known industry leader. 

 BTW Also noticed, the add-in itself was not built on top of VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office). Interestingly, but the Microsoft team decided to use a third-party framework called Add-in Express which is a competitor of their own development toolset packaged with Visual Studio.
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