The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by vel0city on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @12:47PM (#43974933)

I don't get any kind of spinner on Outlook opening emails. Especially emails which are pure text or only lightly stylized open instantly. Even emails with calendar invites load really fast, I don't see any kind of spinner graphic at all.

Running latest Outlook on Windows 11, currently >1k emails in my Inbox folder, on an 11th gen i5, while also on a Teams call a ton of other things active on my machine.

This is also a machine with a lot of corporate security tools sapping a lot of cycles.

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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by xnorswap on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:04PM (#43975844)

I guess I shall screen record it, this is new-ish windows 11 laptop.

( This might also be a "new outlook" vs "out outlook" thing? )

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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by vel0city on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:13PM (#43975945)

I am using New Outlook.

I don't doubt it's happening to you, but I've never experienced it. And I'm not exactly using bleeding edge hardware here. A several year old i5 and a Ryzen 3 3200U (a cheap 2019 processor in a cheap Walmart laptop).

Maybe your IT team has something scanning every email on open. I don't know what to tell you, but it's not the experience out of the box on any machine I've used.

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