Microsoft

Microsoft Outlook is a wonderful app that helps you manage your emails perfectly with labels, flags, filters etc. If you have a good configuration laptop/ PC, using outlook is butter. But! If you have a low configuration system, Outlook becomes laggy over time. This has partly to do with the offline caches stored by outlook. What are offline caches? Outlook has feature called “caching” which downloads a copy of your mailbox to your local storage. This feature allows you to access your email even when you are offline. While this has some benefits such as improved performance considering the fact that our mailboxes are nowadays housed in a centralized server delaying the access time. Outlook’s local cache of mailbox data in an OST file which has varied size limits (up to 50 GB in Office 365). As the size of this IST file grows, the performance of Outlook starts degrading. Moreover, larger OST files can also get corrupted. ...

Microsoft Office appears to be suffering from the same problem that current Indian government does: they have a ton of interesting schemes and initiatives, but they cannot communicate them to the people effectively. Office 365 introduced a new comment feature last year that removed the comment lines from the document. Comments have always shown to the pane on the right and I had a line connecting the balloon to the highlighted text. Somewhere before version 2009 (Build 13231.20152), they removed these lines. ...