I think at this point they could hollow out Outlook and replace it with a guy who draws the interface on a whiteboard and then sends me a photo of it. That might have similar round-trip latency. /s
Really, a web app wrapped in a desktop app would be fine if it could perform better. I don't even need good, just better.
Re:Speed Is the Killer Feature
by silly-silly on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:30AM
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Its really quite funny, as outlook used to be the 'killer feature' for an operating system, now it just makes people want to be a killer.
There have been a bunch of interesting rumors that Microsoft is planning to hollow out the insides of Outlook Desktop (anything that isn't nailed down to big corporate contracts and their extensions), and directly replace those guts with Web Outlook via React Native or something like it.