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OUTLOOK! Jeez has it gotten slow on my mac. I am not a particularly fast typist, but I can routinely out-type outlook by a whole sentence. Moreover in the latest version, if I hit command-R and start typing it will routinely take so long to just start replying to a message that it will drop the first 90 characters I type. I've seen rumors that microsoft will replace it, and I cannot wait until that happens.

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Outlook as a native application on Windows 10 on a recent Dell laptop is so slow that I have deleted the wrong e-mail in my inbox because I'll hit the trashcan icon and by the time Outlook notices, it's added new messages, moved things around, and then think that I clicked the icon on the message that now appears where the original did.

This is a major problem with Outlook now. I’ve done it several times, where Outlook is thinking and moving stuff around between when I target the thing I want to hit and when I move the mouse.

I remember Outlook on windows 10 actually adding animation to my typing to smooth out the flow of words. I disabled that immediately and I’m usually pro eye candy, but that was a step too far.

same. it was the dumbest feature i've ever seen.

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I have a brand new i7 Mac and outlook is laggy just switching between emails or inboxes.

Also, if I click the "Switch to New Outlook" button, it says that it can't copy over my custom IMAP accounts for work. I would think that supporting things besides exchange or gmail accounts would be something they would do before releasing a new version.

Weirdly enough it seems like Outlook on the web is somehow faster than the Windows version. It might be because lots of email uses HTML and Outlook is using an ancient version of HTML. I am very impressed with developers who can make things consistent in Outlook as well as actual browsers.

Outlook web is slow as molasses. In the desktop is literally unusable for me (It never opens my account). Both things were superior experiences in 1999.

Outlook on the web seems to be getting most of the development effort, in part because supposedly its parts are increasingly shared with Windows Mail/Calendar (aka "Mobile Outlook") through supposedly React Native, but also in part because apparently that's just where most users use Outlook in 2021 (even in many MS365 shops, supposedly, there are a bunch of companies that prefer the web app).

There have been a bunch of interesting rumors that Microsoft is planning to hollow out the insides of Outlook Desktop (anything that isn't nailed down to big corporate contracts and their extensions), and directly replace those guts with Web Outlook via React Native or something like it.

I think at this point they could hollow out Outlook and replace it with a guy who draws the interface on a whiteboard and then sends me a photo of it. That might have similar round-trip latency. /s

Really, a web app wrapped in a desktop app would be fine if it could perform better. I don't even need good, just better.

Its really quite funny, as outlook used to be the 'killer feature' for an operating system, now it just makes people want to be a killer.

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