We have outlook classic at work, and that shit takes a solid 5 mins to actually load up my inbox enough to become functional.

Outlook has always been shit, the new AI slop is just fuel on the fire.

Wait, which Outlook? Outlook, Outlook (New), Outlook (Old), Outlook (beta), Outlook (omega)?

Microsoft is such garbage these days. My coworkers and I are constantly complaining about all of our Office software that doesn’t function the way it used to and instead only makes our jobs more difficult.

The only solution, as you might’ve guessed, is the move to WinUI. We already reported that Microsoft is now fully committed to WinUI, with Rudy Huyn preparing a team to make native Windows apps, and so we may see a native Outlook too…

One can dream. The prevalence of web apps pretending to be native apps is unfortunate. Just because your devs “know” JavaScript doesn’t mean it is a good language.

Slopware

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Gotta load up all that spyware first.

It's a feature.

Try fastmail for how to build an instant Web interface that is just ridiculously fast. Everything is instant, it has offline support, email address aliases... I dont know. Couldn't be happier. I literally have nothing to complain about at all.

Except yes, it's part of the five eyes countries, which means every email is likely also in nsa datacenters. I dont like that, and would prefer it not to.

Not true, with my 15th generation Intel processor and Samsung Pro SSD it only take six seconds to open /S

Seriously though, we need ever increasing software requirements so we can keep forcing people to buy new hardware. If that means we just stop optimizing completely and vibe code our way to the 16th generation, so be it.

On the plus side, the Outlook team's Agile burndown charts for the last 8 sprints look perfect!

Jesus. Funny reading this today when my old Outlook has been a complete shit show since last week, with freezing, minute-long loading times and generally being absolutely unusable for no apparent reason. I'm really loving Outlook right now...

I'm still bitter about Mail & Calendar. It worked wonderfully, but of course they decided to discontinue it.

Good. I want all of the bloated software on my work machine. Whoever uses outlook on their personal device is making a very bad choice.

MS: "why aren't people using our product?"

People:

This post took more ten 10 seconds to load the comments, but im okay with that. Fuck outlook anyways

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.