New Outlook

[Darmok N Jalad]

Okay, so I’ve been using New Oultook at work for a while now. What a mess of a program. I’ve had various GUI issues with it, and while things have improved, it’s still a crap shoot on what you’ll get. Missed reminders, saving empty drafts, attachment handling woes.

Today, I’m watching Task Manager, and the amount of memory it’s consuming just keeps climbing (it’s gone from 4GB to 7GB as I type this). I’ll then get a notification that it’s consuming lots of resources and needs to be restarted. I’ve restarted it at least 5 times now today. What would even cause this to happen?

 

[Vincero]

Derp programming aimed at being part of a derpy ecosystem

 

[Klemc]

Look out

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[Darmok N Jalad]

I know it’s a web wrapper tool, and the fun part about it is that MS can break it and fix it with no user action. Clearly there was some sort of memory leak or runaway process. The alarming thing is how this can just happen and then go away. It was screwing up my workplace all morning. What was messing up, one of the 200+ trackers baked into it? The joys of not hosting your own email for the sake of “security and cost savings,” I guess.