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.

 

[Vincero]

What's actually scarier is that web outlook via the office.com portal has less issues - granted functionality is much less in terms of things such as mail caching, mailboxes from multiple accounts, etc., so not sure why the 'web wrapper' development is breaking certain key functionality - when I tested 'new outlook' (probably a year ago nearly) there were some basic problems with handling certain things (I think it was flagging emails, etc. I had issues with).
It doesn't sound like it's moved along much.

 

[sepheronx]

the new outlook is absolute garbage.

 

[Bill_Bright]

I've been a huge Outlook fan since Outlook 98. This "new" Outlook is just another example of Microsoft's long history of misguided and confusing naming conventions - where they name very or even totally different programs with very similar or even the exact same name.

See this to learn how far, or how little the "New Outlook" has come or needs to come to become fully implemented. I will not be using it and instead, will stick with the Office version of Outlook (NOT the 365/cloud/new version).

 

[Operandi]

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?

Known issue apparently.

 

[Frick]

I've been a huge Outlook fan since Outlook 98. This "new" Outlook is just another example of Microsoft's long history of misguided and confusing naming conventions - where they name very or even totally different programs with very similar or even the exact same name.

See this to learn how far, or how little the "New Outlook" has come or needs to come to become fully implemented. I will not be using it and instead, will stick with the Office version of Outlook (NOT the 365/cloud/new version).

Oh you mean Outlook (classic)? That is what shits me the most I think. It's not even New Outlook, it's Outlook (new) and the Office 2021 version of Outlook I have is now called Outlook (classic). Add to this it's really slow to get mails and it also has a habit of requiring reauthentication of the accounts before it actually starts working.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

What's actually scarier is that web outlook via the office.com portal has less issues - granted functionality is much less in terms of things such as mail caching, mailboxes from multiple accounts, etc., so not sure why the 'web wrapper' development is breaking certain key functionality - when I tested 'new outlook' (probably a year ago nearly) there were some basic problems with handling certain things (I think it was flagging emails, etc. I had issues with).
It doesn't sound like it's moved along much.

It has progressed in a lot of way, or I guess I should say that it has caught up with the functionality of what Classic Outlook can do. I understand that classic outlook is a mess of things tacked together, which you can tell since it doesn’t follow convention always.

Known issue apparently.

Yeah, I did some searching and they “fixed” it yesterday afternoon. The worrisome part was that, while it was fixed remotely, it also broke remotely. No updates or bugs on the host caused the issue, and no fixes can be applied locally. The “program” just started consuming absurd amounts of RAM and became unresponsive. While it wasn’t a work breaker, it just shows that this program is really nothing locally. MS has full reign over it.

 

[Shrek]

I am wondering if things are getting too complicated to maintain; time machine has only just been fixed on Mac OS 14.7

 

[sepheronx]

I am wondering if things are getting too complicated; time machine has only just been fixed on Mac OS 14.7

I think Doc Brown fixed it by the third movie, although he used a train.

 

[kapone32]

I deleted it the minute it told me that Cloud storage was full. I don't need my emails stored remotely.

 

[sepheronx]

I actually just use thunderbird if i need to use desktop. Otherwise, anyone else with a good suggestion?

 

[AusWolf]

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?

I totally agree. Not to mention group emails sent to a group that I'm a part of show up in my inbox for no reason, notifications aren't visible enough, my signature keeps disappearing and appearing again if I discard my email and start a new one, the calendar is a mess with days taking up a huge chunk of space, but every appointment being just a single line in the day box, etc. It's an absolutely horrible experience that I wouldn't go near with a 5-ft pole if I didn't need it for work.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I totally agree. Not to mention group emails sent to a group that I'm a part of show up in my inbox for no reason, notifications aren't visible enough, my signature keeps disappearing and appearing again if I discard my email and start a new one, the calendar is a mess with days taking up a huge chunk of space, but every appointment being just a single line in the day box, etc. It's an absolutely horrible experience that I wouldn't go near with a 5-ft pole if I didn't need it for work.

Yeah, we are stuck with it for work too. We have the ability to fallback to classic, but I know it’s just a matter of time before classic dies and new is our only choice. It has gained a lot of functionality in the last 6 months, but it’s still got some big issues.

 

[Vayra86]

Oh dear. I hope we avoid this POS at work then. Haven't had to deal with it yet.

 

[Space Lynx]

I always just login to Outlook through my web browser, never use the app itself mobile or desktop. Works fine for me, and ublock origin makes things nice and tidy too.

 

[chrcoluk]

We talking the app or the website? Never liked how Microsoft decided to rebrand hotmail, if its the app please post a screenshot, my Outlook from Office 365 still seems the same.

Wouldnt surprise me if a big regression is coming given what going on with Microsoft and UI these days.

 

[AusWolf]

I always just login to Outlook through my web browser, never use the app itself mobile or desktop. Works fine for me, and ublock origin makes things nice and tidy too.

The web browser version is just as bad, imo. I was actually talking about that in my post above.

Edit: I also forgot to add, if you have multiple accounts (like a personal and a work one), switching between the two is an absolute nightmare.

Edit 2: This looks absolutely disgusting.

 

[chrcoluk]

Apparently this is about the Outlook app in windows, not the office variant, so hopefully I am ok for a bit longer.

 

[Caring1]

I deleted it the minute it told me that Cloud storage was full. I don't need my emails stored remotely.

I've never had cloud storage related to "new outlook" is that only if you have One Drive on?
I disabled that on my desktop.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

We talking the app or the website? Never liked how Microsoft decided to rebrand hotmail, if its the app please post a screenshot, my Outlook from Office 365 still seems the same.

Wouldnt surprise me if a big regression is coming given what going on with Microsoft and UI these days.

This is the "app" called "New Outlook." It's really more like a PWA though.

Apparently this is about the Outlook app in windows, not the office variant, so hopefully I am ok for a bit longer.

No, this is where MS is taking Outlook, I'm afraid. I'm using it on a corporate machine, and I believe NO is now deployed as the default option for user accounts. While you can revert to "Classic Outlook," I can say most of my workplace is now using New Outlook at this point, as I heard a lot of groaning when this runaway memory issue was going on this past week.

 

[mechtech]

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?

Is that 360 or 365 or is it at 370 now?

 

[Klemc]

Microsoft.OutlookForWindows_1.0.0.0_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe

ADK can get rid of it.