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Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows (www.windowslatest.com)
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New Outlook takes 10 seconds to show an email after clicking a Windows 11 notification. Outlook Classic does it instantly.

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[–] 66 points 3 months ago (11 children)

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.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    It’s so, so bad. I hate it so much. It makes me angry every time I have to do it. Especially when I try to do some sort of action that’s buried 3 menus deep but it decides to sync something at that moment and just pops you out of whatever the fuck you were trying to do.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Same. I will stick with old outlook as long as I can.

    Even opening a task takes ten or more seconds on new outlook. What the hell is it doing that old outlook wasn't?

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Windows 11 ships with two versions of Outlook. There is Outlook Classic, the long-running Win32 desktop app built for power users, and there is the new Outlook, which Microsoft is pushing as the future of email on Windows. The newer one is built on WebView2 and is, in essence, a browser window that loads Outlook.com.

    Old Outlook downloads all your stuff when you sync, so it's immediately available when you try to look at it. New Outlook just being a wrapper around a website probably means it's asking the server for things as you select them.

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

    Oh that's bullshit.

    It must be really bad over there at that billion-dollar company where they can't maintain both a website and a native app. Aww.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    If they try to retire classic outlook I'm gonna riot.

    Windows 11 is bad and I was unhappy when I got moved onto it, but is bearable. New outlook is unusable if you get a large number of emails every day for work.

    They decided: let's rebuild it with none of the features!!

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