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My workplace uses Windows 💀

BUT

When I for the first time ever since getting this job (4-5 years?) emptied the "removed/deleted" folder in Microsoft Outlook, this icon popped up. Holy crap. What era is this from? The nostalgia was... Bittersweet?

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[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This animation is an asset in Windows. Outlook might simply be calling some legacy function to display deleting in progress, or this is Outlook 2003

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