Reposted by Alice Lastname
humanity finally achieved peak software development capability in 2023 when (new) Outlook for Windows was released. It combines worst ux worst ui worst performance, all in one package like never before. ive never seen anything achieves such atrocities 😮💨
![Comic. [Person 1 sitting at desk typing on laptop while Person 2 with shoulder-length hair stands behind.] PERSON 1: Aw man, speedrun.com removed my world record just because I listened to lateralus and ænima to get in the flow. PERSON 2: Oh, a copyright thing? PERSON 1: No, they don’t allow tool-assisted speedruns.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiar3wsjy5rdmexkvbkh322xd77jkkihi55attsje5jknacobnmjti)
![// This is TERRIBLE code, but LoadImage gives us a downscaled large icon which looks ugly
// on 96 DPI displays. If we load the 0th image from User32 directly, then we can get a
// proper 16x16 small icon for the default program icon, which looks crisp.
WCHAR szUser32Path[MAX_PATH] = {};
GetSystemDirectory(szUser32Path, MAX_PATH);
wcscat_s(szUser32Path, L"\\user32.dll");
wil::unique_hicon hIconDefault;
UINT uExtractIconResult = ExtractIconEx(szUser32Path, 0, nullptr, &hIconDefault, 1);
assert(1 == uExtractIconResult);](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rklgpsjc3533artbu7imybg4/bafkreierpssxtyhbteattaxum7t4frbvfxgwfyw3afy4cifm3m25eyuuf4)
