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Bloated, clunky and slow
From the title I guess you could assume I'm talking about any of the 365 products.. but specifically I'm just about at the end of my patience with outlook.
I'd be happy if MS offered a stripped down featureless 365 office suite, specifically an email program that is just an email program.
I have a 12 Gen i7 210Mhz 12 core processor with 64Gig RAM and RTX 4070Ti GPU and all solid state drives. Outlook email feels like I'm using a remote desktop on the other side of the world kind of lag, stuttering. Deleting emails is an exercise in patience, it gets confused about read and unread, it generally feels like its just barely holding on.
If I wasn't a gamer I'd switch to linux today. This crap is really not worth the thousands of dollars I've paid for. Pretty sure MS just vibe coded the entire 365 suite, it has that kind of feel to it.
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How do you mean be specific
- If I select 50 emails to delete it will sometimes not delete all of them leaving random ones still in the email
- After deleting it will position me far down in the email list and I have to scroll back to the top to find the last item I deleted
- If you click the trashcan to quickly next to email items to delete them items below seem to scroll up and slide around and it leaves you wondering if you deleted the right one.
- When I send an email it will sometimes leave a copy of it in draft
- Inbox will indicate unread emails (I'm not using focus) but I cant find them eventually they disappear
- Performance is just poor, scrolling, bulk operations sometimes just typing an email there is lag
- Search does not always find email with matching body content
- I have dark mode but it always shows email content in light mode
But really most of the above is just the usual minor issues. The main thing is it just feels clunky and slow. By the end of the day I wonder if I'm not better off looking for a different mail and calendar app but it's not easy in business to use alternatives.
