webview2 performance

On June 15, 2026, Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows can take roughly 10 seconds to open the specific email behind a Windows 11 notification, while Outlook Classic opens the same message almost immediately. That is not a cosmetic delay; it is the kind of everyday friction that makes users...

Microsoft says Teams became faster in June 2026 after recent engineering work cut chat-switching latency by about 20 percent, reduced some freezes tied to WebView2 loading, and continued earlier video-rendering improvements, but user testing still shows the Windows app consuming nearly 1GB of...