Outlook 2007 Is a Memory Hog
When I got my new laptop a few weeks ago I thought it was pretty cool that it came with Office 2007. The nifty new toolbars and embedded wavey swooshes are slick. I don’t really mind that by default Word and Excel assume you want to save files with a .docx or .xlsx extension. (That’s fine with me; makes it easier to remember to not save something as an ‘07 file if I need to share it with others that are still using Office XP or 2003.)
What I cannot handle is the fact that Outlook 2007 is using over 130 MB of RAM. 130 MB?! I wouldn’t mind that much, since apparently it’s supposed to play nicely with Windows and just use whatever RAM is available. But even using as much memory as it is it’s still slow slow slow. And this is even after I disabled iTunes 7.3’s ridiculous Outlook add-in. 130 MB?! Are they crazy?
This entry was originally posted on Thursday, July 5th, 2007 at 7:42 am and is filed under Software, rants.
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July 6th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Hey namesake,
you might also consider that this is 2007 and you should have 1-2GB of ram by now. 130MB isn’t so bad. If you’re running Vista that alone takes way more.
July 12th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Microsoft is on a one company mission to keep productivity at a constant or decreasing level in the face of the threat from Moore’s law.
Excel makes me nostalgic for VisiCalc.
July 12th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
BTW VisiCalc hogs a whopping 27,520 bytes, that’s less than 1/4 the size of the image at the top of this page.
July 15th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Outlook 2007 is atrocious. It’s horrible. I cannot imagine how M$ could release a product that works so amazingly poorly.
It takes forever to compose an email because the ENTIRE OS locks up constantly whenever Outlook2007 is maximized. The *only* way to use Firefox — or any other app, really — is to first exit Outlook. It’s unbearable and inexcusable.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:04 am
130MB??? Hah!! I’d be happy if it were only 130. I’m sitting here right now looking at mine that’s over 500MB…
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:28 am
My mail.app on my mac takes around 370MB… but I have 3 large email boxes… one exchange and two imap.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
dude, my outlook 2003 is consuming 350-500Mb and takes my 2Gb Ram machine completely down. What is amazing is that no one has yet deliver a proper email client to replace outlook once and for all. all the alternatives have problems, either they don’t do calendar, or they suck at email or or or. Outlook is the king of the desktop, there is no business pc out there that does not spend the full day with outlook open and the software is a piece of crap. for god sake, somebody help us, give me an alternative and I’ll go for it.
I have around 40Gb of email that I keep around for searching and so on…
May 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
If you can trim down your email boxes it will help a lot. I was importing GMail into my mac mail, which included the MASSIVE spam folder. I deleted the spam and it dropped the memory usage down to 52MB.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Well, I now have around 20 pst files to keep them small. But Outlook is just a pain… I wish I could replace it with a proper business tool. Not enough importance is being given in the market to this tool… it owns the desktop and there are no alternatives.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Outlook does not own the desktop. There are plenty of groupware apps out there. And yes, outlook 2007 seems to load emails into memory, so your usage is pretty much a direct relationship to your mailbox size.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
BTW if all you care about is email, then scrap the groupware category altogether and go with a simple mail client, such as Outlook Express (since it comes with XP - called Windows Mail on Vista), or countless others. I hate groupware like Outlook, Lotus Notes. Software should do one thing well, not lots of things terribly.