RE startup time, we know it's an issue and we continue to work on it.
RE slow during normal Outlook usage, please email me if you'd like to try it again with level 3 support. I'd love to figure out what's going on in your case. adam dot smith at startup-name.com. Thanks.
If I had to guess, it's because overnight, maybe, it does a lot of indexing that forces pretty much everything to swap out to disk? And maybe with everything paged-out, the whole machine is slow when I need it the most? It just doesn't seem to ever really recover, though.
Google's old desktop search product (haven't used it in a while) had that kind of problem which made it really painful to use since it did background indexing frequently back then.
I'll reinstall and drop you an email if I see the problem return. It happened twice, once before you launched publicly and again after. Now, though, I have a laptop with >1GB of memory so maybe it won't be quite as bad?
RE slow during normal Outlook usage, please email me if you'd like to try it again with level 3 support. I'd love to figure out what's going on in your case. adam dot smith at startup-name.com. Thanks.