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.
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!
Holy fucking shit. Imagine paying millions for enterprise software for your thousands of employees, then you basically get an icon that loads a webpage
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.
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
Holy fucking shit. Imagine paying millions for enterprise software for your thousands of employees, then you basically get an icon that loads a webpage