The examples are pretty funny. Is VERY slow. Like I thought old outlook was a bit on the slow side for syncing. The videos they provide are remarkably slow in every day interactions.

The new Outlook has been a shit show since day 1. When they first released it it couldn’t load PSTs, it couldn’t use COM add ins, it didn’t link correctly with Teams. You couldn’t correctly add shared calendars. The list just keeps on going, and all the things it fell short on was all stuff that business users heavily relied on.

Granted some of them need to go, but it’s like they didn’t even pay attention to what was used.

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.

I don't understand how people can stand this sort of software (or quality of software). The only explanation is they are hostages of the situation.

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.

Good thing that the new Outlook at least doesn't force itself onto you.... oh, wait

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.

But we need a container to run a Docker with several VMs inside so we can run byte code that runs on a web browser that gets compiled back to C++ under a terabyte of abstraction layers that need about 10000 dependencies that require a TPM, 64GB of DDR5-7200 RAM, about 24 cores at the minimum, two or three GPUs, a 10Gbps connection to the cloud, absolutely requires the latest mouse driver in Windows 11, but yet somehow still manages to open on the wrong desktop because the UI crammed together three hamburger menus, an unintuitive context-sensitive icon, a kebab menu at the same place where the cookies settings, adblocker complaint, and "you need to update" requesters pop up.

And the mouse pointer is too small on a 4K screen so you have to wiggle the mouse to see it but at that very instant for some reason the mouse's battery dies.

New outlook is a web browser skinned to look like an application. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

We have had 5x, 10x, 100x productivity gains from AI for a year or two (or more?). Where is this reflected in Microsoft products?

My favorite is when outlook pops up a meeting notification about five minutes into the meeting after I’m already in the meeting.

Okay, yes. That sounds like it's a drawback, but additionally you get not being notified of meetings and looking like an asshole all the time! What a great deal!

WebView2 is a disease and slowly clogging up my pc.

Search in Outlook always was a dumpster fire. But the search in the latest version of Outlook has failed to clear even the already low expectations I had for it.

I now save a copy of any email I think I’ll need to reference in the future in a folder on my PC.

It should be criminal to even charge money for MS software considering how much garbage it is

Isn't it an improvement if it takes 10 seconds to crash instead of crashing immediately?

It takes about 5 seconds to show the drives in Explorer for some reason, like its an Amstrad PC1540.

This is the same idiot misrepresenting WhatsApp ram usage. His job is to inflame, not inform.

Microsoft doesn't know how to make software anymore. That's not an anti-AI thing, or even an anti-microsoft thing, they just truly don't know.

It's not a tech company anymore. The people in charge aren't nerds, they aren't coders, their business people now. The org is so large and cumbersome that the left hand never knows what the right is doing. How can they possibly make software when you have to go through 42 teams for even the smallest feature request, miles of red tape, approvals, legal, everything. Small startups can build better things because they don't have all the stupid bureaucracy of big tech, and Microsoft just keeps adding more. "Maybe even more overhead will get us operational!" It's no wonder to me they're falling behind, they don't know how to make things anymore.

It's a web page ffs

Pretty much all modern software is garbage. I routinely have to go back to 2009 or earlier to find stuff that isn't awful.

And with the power of AI we're going to keep making those delays LONGER!

We should all go back to mutt or elm. Maybe pine.

Using "New" Outlook is granting Microsoft's webmail server permission to access and read everything in your mailbox, from the day it was created to the latest email received. Anyone using it willingly is a fucking idiot.
All it IS is an edge webview window loading outlook.com. Go ahead. Block outlook.com and watch it fail spectacularly.

To be the biggest and most hilarious thing abut Outlook on desktop is unified Inbox.

Mobile Outlook App? Yep. Old ass Mail App? Yep. Outlook: What's unified Inbox precious?

This site also needs 10 seconds to load the unoptimized and mostly unneccessary images.

Every time it asks me to try the new outlook, I do an eye roll. It sucks, stop asking.

Exactly the same as when Microsoft ditched Outlook express.

That sucks but this is clearly a bug, not a performance issue.

crash?

Who the hell uses Outlook???