Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

Re:Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook... by Twirrim on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:13AM (#48586654)

Gmail used to offer a low bandwidth / performance webmail interface, that was essentially their original UI. Ran like greased lightning, used barely any memory. Emails loaded almost instantly.

It was nice while it lasted.

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Re:Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook... by nasretdinov on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:51AM (#48587277)

Isn't it still the case then? I used the basic HTML version when I was working at Google to try to understand whether or not it was slow because of the (unoptimal) frontend or not (it was the backend that sometimes took >=600ms to load messages unfortunately, not the frontend).

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Re:Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook... by hn92726819 on Thursday June 18, 2026 @03:16PM (#48590150)

Google killed basic HTML in Gmail a few years ago

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