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My work laptop (the only Windows computer I use) runs Windows 7, and I intend to keep it that way as long as Windows 7 still gets updates. This article just con

by krylon 9y ago

My work laptop (the only Windows computer I use) runs Windows 7, and I intend to keep it that way as long as Windows 7 still gets updates. This article just confirms my bias, and I freely admit I am biased. I do not like Windows very much to begin with, but as far as Windows goes, I think Windows 7 ____ing nailed it (for people without touchscreens, anyway). On a related note, I have noticed that Outlook 2013 exhibits a notable lag between a keystroke and a character appearing in the message window. I have not done any measurements, but my best guess is that it is in the order of hundreds of milliseconds. If you type fast (I like to think that I do), Outlook can keep up throughput-wise, but this lag is terribly annoying.

mschuster91 9y ago
> On a related note, I have noticed that Outlook 2013 exhibits a notable lag between a keystroke and a character appearing in the message window. Try switching to text-only mails, no zoom... and if you must write HTML mails, do not have an image that is larger size than the window. As soon as there is an image that doesn't fit into the window at 100% zoom Outlook begins to crawl.
- krylon 9y ago
  My work computer is stuck with Office 2007, because I have Office 2007 Professional, and I need Access about once per year for an arcane reason. Office Pro is fairly expensive, so for the time being, I am stuck with 2007. I am still not entirely sure if I should be happy or sad about it. ;-) But I have used Outlook 2013 on coworkers' computers every now and then, and it was pretty laggy. These days, I do a lot more programming than sysadmin'ning and help desk, but when I was the IT support guy at our company, my overall impression of Office 2013 was not very good. I have seen it just stop working on a handful of computers (out of about 75-80, so to that is a lot), in such a way that I could only "fix" it by uninstalling and reinstalling Office from scratch. On one of our CAD workstations, Outlook and Autodesk Inventor started a feud where an update to MS Office caused Inventor to crash, and the subsequent reinstallation of Inventor caused Outlook to crash when we tried to write an email. (Then we reinstalled Office, and then suddenly things worked magically, so I remain clueless as to what happened.) The latter may be Autodesk's fault as much as Microsoft's (I get the vague impression that they care even less about their software crashing than Microsoft, as long as the license is paid for). But the impression I get is that MS Office has suffered quite a bit over the years. Therefore I am not entirely unhappy about being stuck on Office 2007. I do miss OneNote, the one program from their Office suite I really like, but I have org-mode, so I can manage. ;-) EDIT: Sorry for venting, that one has been building up for a long time.
orloffm 9y ago
You maybe have that smooth typing animation enabled? It can be turned off via the registry, google for it.
TheCoreh 9y ago
The difference in latency is only noticeable in Windows 7 with DWM disabled though, is that your current setting?

by krylon 9y ago

mschuster91 9y ago

> On a related note, I have noticed that Outlook 2013 exhibits a notable lag between a keystroke and a character appearing in the message window. Try switching to text-only mails, no zoom... and if you must write HTML mails, do not have an image that is larger size than the window. As soon as there is an image that doesn't fit into the window at 100% zoom Outlook begins to crawl.

krylon 9y ago
My work computer is stuck with Office 2007, because I have Office 2007 Professional, and I need Access about once per year for an arcane reason. Office Pro is fairly expensive, so for the time being, I am stuck with 2007. I am still not entirely sure if I should be happy or sad about it. ;-) But I have used Outlook 2013 on coworkers' computers every now and then, and it was pretty laggy. These days, I do a lot more programming than sysadmin'ning and help desk, but when I was the IT support guy at our company, my overall impression of Office 2013 was not very good. I have seen it just stop working on a handful of computers (out of about 75-80, so to that is a lot), in such a way that I could only "fix" it by uninstalling and reinstalling Office from scratch. On one of our CAD workstations, Outlook and Autodesk Inventor started a feud where an update to MS Office caused Inventor to crash, and the subsequent reinstallation of Inventor caused Outlook to crash when we tried to write an email. (Then we reinstalled Office, and then suddenly things worked magically, so I remain clueless as to what happened.) The latter may be Autodesk's fault as much as Microsoft's (I get the vague impression that they care even less about their software crashing than Microsoft, as long as the license is paid for). But the impression I get is that MS Office has suffered quite a bit over the years. Therefore I am not entirely unhappy about being stuck on Office 2007. I do miss OneNote, the one program from their Office suite I really like, but I have org-mode, so I can manage. ;-) EDIT: Sorry for venting, that one has been building up for a long time.

orloffm 9y ago

You maybe have that smooth typing animation enabled? It can be turned off via the registry, google for it.

TheCoreh 9y ago

The difference in latency is only noticeable in Windows 7 with DWM disabled though, is that your current setting?