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Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 1 week ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm concerned about what you wrote here. I'm not clear though -- how is what you wrote different from what the outlook desktop does otherwise? Outlook always had access to my email and calendar account, doesn't it?

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The "traditional" Outlook (Which Microsoft now calls Outlook "Legacy") stores your data locally, on your local storage inside your PC.

"New" Outlook allows outlook.com to sync your mail to THEIR MAIL SERVER, allowing them to train the AI on it, etc. It's no longer YOUR email. It's theirs.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 4 points 1 week ago

[–] Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Exactly the same as when Microsoft ditched Outlook express.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Took 330 ms to load for me. Maybe your internet connection is a bit slow? Its also getting hit by multiple big sites at the same time.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe your internet connection is a bit slow?

Yeah, that's what i say.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bugs are performance issues and if unfixed they are QOL disprovement

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net -1 points 1 week ago

All bugs are performance issues? I didn't know that, thanks.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

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?

[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

crash?

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Who the hell uses Outlook???

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It is the standard in the corporate world.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What do you use instead?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Corpo Gmail.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

The problem I need to solve is accessing multiple inboxes, outlook and gmail. The Outlook client does that.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

O.... Gmail.

But I've had it for so long. I was literally a beta tester way back when.

On the other hand I have an android phone so it's Gmail or bust. There's no real way to use an android with it. And since I need email for extremely basic correspondence I don't bother moving to a different one.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Seamonkey or bust

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

college accounts, some colleges use outlook as thier primary email source, also ties into the apps that come along with it.

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