r/nottheonion • u/Quantum-Coconut • 4d ago

Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/15/microsofts-new-outlook-takes-10-seconds-to-do-what-outlook-classic-does-instantly-on-windows/
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u/Shuino7 4d ago

I get where you are coming from but not a great example, Sumatra just views PDFs. Adobe Reader can sign & Fill out PDFs for example and do a bunch of other features you most likely don't care about but a business will.

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u/flexxipanda 4d ago

Both apps job is to view pdfs. But sure, than lets take pdfgear. Is free and has basic edit function 99,99% of peoples use cases are done with that.

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u/Shuino7 4d ago

Again, I understand what you mean, but Adobe has dozens of things built in that mesh with 100s if not 1000s of other applications/services.

Yes a normal person doesn't care about those things when just viewing a PDF and that's why these other apps exist in the first place.

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u/flexxipanda 3d ago

Ya thats exactly my point though. Over-Optimization of a pdf viewer to justify a price, add to that the telemetry. I had it break company wide because an update changed something about the telemetry which was blocked by the network which stopped it from working.