Outlook: miserable
Technical ·Wednesday March 25, 2009 @ 01:55 EDT (link)
Outlook, as well as hanging if you try to do something unexpected, like, say, read an email, or switch folders (one click, blue title bar; two clicks adds the "(Not Responding)" notification), also does something else really stupid: when you paste in pictures, it sends them as bitmaps. So, for example, 4 ~200k JPEGs (800k) take 8M (10x). Stupid, stupid, stupid, Outlook.
Oh, and it appears as if fetching the images from the Microsoft shoot really is killing my server (bandwidth-wise only; CPU usage is extremely low). So much for whatever bandwidth that Broadstripe promised. Back now, though; demand must have peaked. The static server registered a fair number of network timeouts.
