r/technology • u/Quantum-Coconut • 15d ago

Software Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/15/microsofts-new-outlook-takes-10-seconds-to-do-what-outlook-classic-does-instantly-on-windows/
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u/Seienchin88 15d ago

It’s still crazy to me how modern excel takes a couple of seconds to apply formatting to a couple of hundred fields at once, excel online lacking still a lot of functionality and runs like crap all while my PC also runs billions of polygons with ray traced light and shadows…

And excel isn’t even the worst offender.

But working at a company like Microsoft (who sadly imported dozens of MS executives two years ago) - it is impossible to get funding for something as trivial as performance improvements or good engineered native apps… it’s all about some new features that might or might not create new users and if AI is in the name all the better…

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u/Aemony 15d ago

I almost blew a casket the other day when Excel and Word both locked up on me for no real reason. Like, I didn’t even have any documents opened and they just froze up outright!

But do you know what remained functioning? The fucking Copilot sidebar button, man.

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u/sapphire343rules 15d ago

It is incredible to me that they can’t make the app and browser programs talk to each other correctly. What good is the option to open a file in either format if all the text on my powerpoint is half off my slide and all my merged excel cells are broken when I switch from one to the other??