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Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 104 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It uses a fucking inordinate amount of resources to accomplish its task, mostly.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That's Electron baby!

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Several years ago I inadvertently (because I didn’t realize who they were) got in a twitter argument with someone who I seem to recall as the creator of electron about how it was fucking embarrassing how bad electron apps are. At the time I kinda felt bad because he seemed like a decent guy and I let loose but I wonder what the carbon footprint of his little side project is…

    I think what started the rant was that back at that time, if you scrolled one page back in a chat, it would display a graphic representing a chat while it loaded the chat. And the fucking software was sitting there using a GB of ram and couldn’t keep 5 min of conversation cached. Just inexcusably bad.

    I don’t know who at Microsoft had such a hard-on for electron back then, but it seems to have spread and it’s still nowhere close to the good old windows GUI for resource usage.

    Thankfully it has gotten better. Slightly. Still pegs my CPU but I think that’s because I have a shit CPU with integrated gfx

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I could see the benefit if they wanted it to work on other systems, but I doubt that's why they chose it. Someone up high just saw it as the cool new thing and forced it onto projects, even when it didn't make sense.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Comparing the amount of noise my laptop's CPU fans make between the two of them when doing moderately intensive tasks like screen sharing a 4K display, Zoom is measurably worse.

    Possibly the one time that Microsoft's inexplicable inability to make their own software run well on their own OS has somehow not manifested.

    Don't get me wrong, it is still death-by-a-thousand-cuts terrible, but the most current iteration of Teams is not the worst in its field... at this one specific thing.

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