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Microsoft's new Outlook takes more than 10 seconds to open an email, while Outlook Classic opens instantly on Windows (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 0 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Outlook classic loads instantly? No that’s a lie. It’s never loaded instantly.

Modern Outlook isn’t great but it’s a leap forward. It’s also browser based, which is good for alternative OS folks.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If only we had the technology that would allow us to compile software into an intermediate language and provide a runtime for a multitude of operating systems, instead of running everything in a fucking browser. That would be so cool, that way a text editor would not need 2 Gigs of RAM. And maybe outlook would not take ages to load

    We could name the technology .net or something. Or maybe name it after a coffee bean.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Outlook used to download emails to a local folder. Opening email was literally as fast as your computer's HD read speed.

    That is no longer true.

    Also, no one is going to use microslop products on alternative OS. That's an insane take.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Modern outlook downloads messages too, maybe you haven’t used it.

    Many companies won’t care about end user os but are deep into the m365 ecosystem.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Opening an email via the web can never be as fast as opening one via a local cache.

    Also, taking more than 10 seconds to open an email is just insane on its own.

    Old outlook took forever to launch, and would sometimes hang for no god damn reason, but at least it would somewhat instantly open an email.

    New browser based, slop injected outlook opens moderately quickly, but still hangs for no god damn reason and can't open an email from notification in less than 10 seconds.

    If not for vendor lock in and paid(?) shills, no one would ever use that garbage.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe you don’t use it? It works fine, it’s fast and caches messages/content locally.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Outlook Classic does that, but Outlook Classic is going away in favor of a web browser pulling up outlook.com

    That's what this whole article is about. The fact that under new outlook, clicking on a notification will take however long it takes, 10-seconds in the article itself. And from what they said, they did the tests repeatedly.

    Because it's a not a mail client, it's a web app, and those are slow.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I use modern outlook daily. It’s not any slower than classic, especially when classic has any addins.

    In fact it’s faster to open.

    It’s better on your cpu/battery.

    If you keep all of your email in your inbox like a lot of Outlook users do, it’s much faster to switch between folders and search.

    Modern doesn’t fall apart when using shared mailboxes or archive mailbox like Classic does.

    It’s awful at public folders.

    It’s not great at browsing (not searching) for older messages as they load dynamically as you scroll after about the 3rd week.

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