Dear Microsoft

On my work account I use Outlook, connected to an Exchange server.

Search is SO SLOW in Outlook that I actually run Thunderbird in a separate window, do my searches over there over IMAP, and then find the date of the mail note that I am looking for, and then go back to Outlook and scroll through my Inbox to locate the message manually.

In other words, what I'm saying is the only reason I'm even running Outlook at all is because it has a task list and a calendar in it.

That Thunderbird code is open source. You might want to look through the code and see if they have figured out a way to make search faster than you have been able to and, well, take the code.