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Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows
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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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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.
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 whether the fuck you were trying to do.
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?
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.
I've taken to just using the website for everything, because I ran into synchronisation issues with the android app on my phone (which is also shit). I have to be able to switch computers, so that makes sense for me.
The website has got worse, too - over the last couple of years it's got slower. For something that's meant to be the future it seems to be going backwards fast!
Don't get me started on Teams.
Holy fucking shit. Imagine paying millions for enterprise software for your thousands of employees, then you basically get an icon that loads a webpage
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.
A native app in their operating system
Yeah, not bothering to maintain a native app in their own OS seems like a capitulation and a admission
Eating all your ram I would guess 🤷♂️
Someone in MS saw the old Outlook, heard the complaints, and thought it was a great opportunity to lead a full rewrite and new product launch in order to get promoted.