Comment by tantalor

2 months ago

> 2 instances of Outlook

That's 2 too many.

They should have used the third outlook they didn't know about... Outlook, Outlook (new), and the well-hidden Outlook (classic) that actually works.

  • Well "Outlook (new)" finally stopped OOM-ing on my very normal-sized inbox, so I went back to using it over Outlook Classic... Can't say I notice a difference much these days.

    (Not a residential inbox, the "I work in IT" sized inbox with all the email alerts about jobs failing...)

  • "Classic" was never very stable to begin with, and seems to be getting less stable every monthly patch cycle. Decades-old problems remain unfixed, and "new" Outlook still doesn't have all the features of the old one (or compatibility with in-house programs that use MAPI integration, or COM add-ins). "Classic" must have been such a spaghetti-fied mess that they thought they couldn't actually fix it at all and needed to replace it. But I'm not sure that's really the solution... is it ever?