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Posted by Adam-Hincu 14 hours ago

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly(www.windowslatest.com)
617 points | 407 commentspage 7
instakill 13 hours ago|
new Google homepage takes [many] seconds to do what classic Google did instantly
herbst 12 hours ago||
Just tried it. It loads instantly and then loads some other stuff I never seen before. However for me the main thing still loads instantly.
Ekaros 13 hours ago||
Same with Gmail. On decent desktop with multi-hundred megabit connection. Frankly just amazing how poor things have gotten.
stackskipton 12 hours ago||
Yea, everyone is trashing on Outlook web while Gmail is over there doing same exact shit. Even worse, Gmail has never well integrated all its features. Apparently having easy access to my full calendar requires a new tab.
botanrice 12 hours ago||
Literally was just googling yesterday about why Windows File Explorer genuinely takes longer to boot up than microsoft edge. Insane how fast they are enshittifying.
BLKNSLVR 12 hours ago|
I think that's caused by OneDrive. Which was the "shove down your throat" flavour of a couple of generations ago.

F OneDrive.

botanrice 6 hours ago||
yea I do think you're right. Really dislike that they've truly stuffed it down as everything getting auto-uploaded to OneDrive. Would be happy to use it to store certain docs but can't control how work sets it up ya know? stuck suffering instead lmao
delduca 9 hours ago||
It should be based on Team's code base :-)
2OEH8eoCRo0 12 hours ago||
Decisions of a company with no competition.
SV_BubbleTime 11 hours ago|
I like that many of the people the agree with this live in California and are or assume to be happy with complete one-party rule.
qwerpy 11 hours ago||
It's not so bad here in Orange County. City/county politics are more balanced and provide pretty good counterweights to the state party. It's much better than the Seattle area, which truly has uniparty rule and it shows. People are less civil and tolerant there, crime and schools are worse, quality of life is lower.

I agree with the parent comment though. MS just doesn't have meaningful competition for Windows and Office, and the terrible software quality/experience is what we get.

LetsGetTechnicl 11 hours ago||
Web apps are a scourge.
stainablesteel 13 hours ago||
microsoft is an amazing study in managed decline

that people still buy this, businesses still rely on their infrastructure, and their stock is somehow world-class is outstanding for the fact that its operating system can't do what middle school level coders can accomplish

SoKamil 13 hours ago||
Outlook for Mac is surprisingly good, though. Every interaction feels (and is) native.

Kudos to the team. I think this is same team that maintains Office Suite for Mac.

I hope to see Teams for Mac in the future. Current Teams app is dogshit.

e12e 12 hours ago||
Surprisingly good is a stretch. Barley adequate more like it.

Now that they've hidden mail access behind oauth (imap and SMTP, additionally SMTP behind global default off policy) and graph api behind oauth2 - it looks like they don't have to worry about real mail clients competing.

Actually fighting [f] to get mail in/out working with freescout right now - and having had learn more than I care to about o365 and PowerShell etc - I wonder how hard it would be to write a couple of stand alone tools to get fetch/send/sync mail working with o365 and local maildir - to get my/sup/any sane Mua to really work with o365/exchange/outlook.

Then there's calendar and teams to deal with..

[f] Thankfully our o365 reseller does most of the fighting - I'm happy to not have tenant-wide admin in AD/entra/whatever kerberized LDAP is called today.

e12e 7 hours ago||
Correction - not "my" but "mu" (mail utils):

https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/

Btw, anyone still reading/participating mailing lists? From MacOS? Have you found a reasonable client?

I'm not even going to try with Outlook.

lawlorino 12 hours ago||
Are we talking about the same Outlook here? And I mean that sincerely. I just joined a new company and now have to use MS software for the first time since Windows 7. Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, you name it, are all a clunky mess (at least on MacOs).
SoKamil 9 hours ago||
Good question. There are two versions of Outlook on macOS.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Outlook/outlook-for-mac

Which one did you use?

shevy-java 12 hours ago||
Win11 may be the best thing for Linux. After all, people who are pissed by Win11 may eventually change operating systems.

Now if only Linux were to offer a useful GUI ...

SV_BubbleTime 11 hours ago|
Linux doesn’t define a GUI. I think you mean ”Now if only there were a distribution of Linux that implemented my personal idea of what a GUI should be.”

To which, I bet someone does. If you think Windows nails all the right ideas, there is Mint.

einpoklum 12 hours ago||
"Old" Outlook is slow enough as well. Especially with Corporate "security" software.
varispeed 6 hours ago|
Outlook is probably the worst software I encountered. I have seen relative being reduced to tears because she was not able to find her important emails and genuinely thought they were gone only to find out Outlook search is so crap it wouldn't find them despite getting literal sentences that were in those emails. I also particularly like merging unrelated email threads into one so you end up not following what the threads are about. The focused view is the best. It hides the emails you actually care about from you. Software like this should be illegal to distribute.
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