New Outlook takes 10 seconds to show an email after clicking a Windows 11 notification. Outlook Classic does it instantly.
This is the same with most software today.
We have extraordinarily fast computers and we still have to wait for shit to happen like it’s 1993.
I’m a dev: the problem as I see it has been the focus on “developer productivity “. This means adopting practices that are not consumer friendly.
The predominant attitude in software development for a while also took user hardware for granted.
You didn’t need to optimise for memory and CPU usage, because computers are so powerful now, and memory was plentiful that it wasn’t anything you needed to concern yourself with, except in the extreme case.
Whereas in 1993, you were much more constrained, so had to squeeze things in to make it run well, or at all.
I’m so tired of companies replacing apps with far inferior updates. If you need to rewrite, at least ensure it can do the same job.
I wonder why they are pushing so hard on new outlook. Its one of their most used products…and people REALLY dont like changes to it.
Because the manager running the program needs to justify their job.
Presumably AI.
We have had 5x, 10x, 100x productivity gains from AI for a year or two (or more?). Where is this reflected in Microsoft products?
Like the productivity gains of the past 50 years, the gains have gone straight to the wealthy.
I have to use Outlook for work. It’s difficult or impossible to find the features that were actually useful in the new Outlook.
I still use old Outlook because at least it actually works.
Same. I will stick with old outlook as long as I can.
Even opening a task takes ten or more seconds on new outlook. What the hell is it doing that old outlook wasn’t?
Windows 11 ships with two versions of Outlook. There is Outlook Classic, the long-running Win32 desktop app built for power users, and there is the new Outlook, which Microsoft is pushing as the future of email on Windows. The newer one is built on WebView2 and is, in essence, a browser window that loads Outlook.com.
Old Outlook downloads all your stuff when you sync, so it’s immediately available when you try to look at it. New Outlook just being a wrapper around a website probably means it’s asking the server for things as you select them.
Oh that’s bullshit.
It must be really bad over there at that billion-dollar company where they can’t maintain both a website and a native app. Aww.
A native app in their operating system
Yeah, not bothering to maintain a native app in their own OS seems like a capitulation and a admission
