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Mail & Calendar Apps Will Be Replaced with New Outlook for Windows December 2024
Original Publish Date: June 2023 | MC650424 Revised Date: August 30, 2023, based on Microsoft's Updated Message See text in red font.
Microsoft's revised announcement states that the Mail and C...
My main concern is resource consumption.
At the current version, new Outlook consumes around 500MB of RAM mostly because it has to bootup Microsoft EdgeView2. Whereas old Microsoft Mail uses less than 100MB.
If the user doesn't have any other application that makes use of EdgeView2 then it means that 500MB will go only to managing email in Windows.
Would you consider adding the option to add third-party accounts into outlook.live.com/mail web client and probably add some PWA support to it ?
That would be greatly appreciated as it will allow to bypass EdgeView2 engine requirements and allow users to make use of the service through preferred browser of choice, with mailto: link handler support already being present in most browsers.
This will make a net RAM consumption around 200MB for Outlook web app which is still an improvement over the new Outlook app.
At the current version, new Outlook consumes around 500MB of RAM mostly because it has to bootup Microsoft EdgeView2. Whereas old Microsoft Mail uses less than 100MB.
If the user doesn't have any other application that makes use of EdgeView2 then it means that 500MB will go only to managing email in Windows.
Would you consider adding the option to add third-party accounts into outlook.live.com/mail web client and probably add some PWA support to it ?
That would be greatly appreciated as it will allow to bypass EdgeView2 engine requirements and allow users to make use of the service through preferred browser of choice, with mailto: link handler support already being present in most browsers.
This will make a net RAM consumption around 200MB for Outlook web app which is still an improvement over the new Outlook app.
Hi Coddy
Thank you for sharing this information. I don't have any control over or a recommendation to RAM Management. My advice is to give that feedback to Microsoft. It is a legitimate concern.
/Teresa
