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Fastmail says it now offers an EU data region. For organizations with residency requirements, the change is useful only if location, migration, support, and operational boundaries are equally clear.
HN readers treated it as a privacy and procurement question rather than a decorative location setting.
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Windows Latest timed the new Outlook against the old one on the same machine: opening an email from a notification takes about 10 seconds in the new app versus instant in Classic. Idle, the new client sits at 490-636 MB of RAM across 10 processes; Classic uses 117-148 MB in one.
Microsoft blamed WebView2, the Chromium engine the app runs on. The thread's sharpest objection: Outlook for Mac is also web-adjacent yet feels native and fast, and Fastmail's web client beats Classic. So the engine isn't the alibi.
