New Outlook memory usage

Question

Old Outlook has a reputation for bloat. I used Task Manager to see how much memory Old vs New use. I was amazed to see that New Outlook uses over 1GB on my system. The "bloated" Old Outlook uses around 200MB. I thought that New Outlook was based mostly in the cloud. And with 1GB of memory, they still have a product that doesn't work as well, nor have as many features, as the Old one. Software design has changed a lot since I was doing it back in the 70s - 90s. Maybe we really should let AI do it.

Answer 1

Same issue here. There's a memory leak. New outlooks memory usage keeps rising even though I'm not doing anything.

Answer 2

Same here. Happens frequently now. Also after restarts of both Outlook and laptop

Answer 3

Same issue here. Outlook demands a lot of RAM. Restart doesn't help.

Answer 4

I've the same issue since today, just after New Outlook update.

Outlook is taking 3.2 GB memory !

I noticed that I had a reminder on an recent email : I disabled it and memory consumption was decreasing quickly. After that, memory consumption was stable at 400 MB ...

It's seems related to reminders on emails like a previous reply user on this post.

But after 30 mn, the memory increased again and Outlook notification told me to restart again.

Answer 5

Same Here, affecting all staff. eats memory until it crashes.

You have Microsoft Outlook Version 1.2024.1002.100 (Production). Client Version is 20240927008.18.WebView2 Version is 129.0.2792.79.