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Kirk Glerum's avatar

I was on the performance dev team in Office9. Our job was to 'help' others keep their memory footprint down, but boy it isn't easy to go troubleshoot someone else's code, make it smaller and faster. So anyway, early on in the cycle, I notice I've got a process in the tray (did we call it that then?) called 'Store', and the only UI element was 'Exit'. Of course, it's early, whatever UI there's to be just isn't there yet. But all I could tell was, it was consuming an enormous amount of memory - like as much as Word/Excel/Outlook combined - and when I clicked 'Exit', I could see no difference on my machine whatsoever. So I sent mail, probably to way too many people, saying "I don't know what store.exe is, but I don't like it." I was given a mild talking-to, team spirit and all, but hey I was perf for gosh sake, and some folk did whisper that they rather agreed.

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Mike Tholfsen's avatar

I worked on Outlook 98, but on the split off team doing other platforms under Kurt Delbene, who had just moved over from Exchange. We worked on Outlook Web Access, Outlook for Mac, and Outlook (in Java!) I am one of the few people in history that has sent and received an email using Outlook Java 🏆

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