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That outlook was part of the ablative outlook armor thats suppose to burn off on reentry

Do you have a source for that? I don’t see what impact consumer email software would have with the composition of the heat shield.

I believe this one would fall under "incongruity theory"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_humor#Incongruity_...

He's saying it's bulky junk that's best torched.

its a joke, no sources required

Well "Outlook (new)" finally stopped OOM-ing on my very normal-sized inbox, so I went back to using it over Outlook Classic... Can't say I notice a difference much these days.

(Not a residential inbox, the "I work in IT" sized inbox with all the email alerts about jobs failing...)

"Classic" was never very stable to begin with, and seems to be getting less stable every monthly patch cycle. Decades-old problems remain unfixed, and "new" Outlook still doesn't have all the features of the old one (or compatibility with in-house programs that use MAPI integration, or COM add-ins). "Classic" must have been such a spaghetti-fied mess that they thought they couldn't actually fix it at all and needed to replace it. But I'm not sure that's really the solution... is it ever?