Outlook search bar moved to the title!?

I came up with another way, slightly less ugly. You can add a bunch of nonsense command buttons to the search ribbon itself in order to push the useful search buttons to the right, thus avoiding the dropdown hide.

1. Right-click the ribbon, choose Customize the Ribbon.
2. On the dropdown to the right where it says "Customize the Classic Ribbon", choose Tool Tabs.
3. Click on Search Tools in the list and click New Group.
4. Move the group up using the arrow buttons on the right so that it's on the Search Tools tab but before the Scope, Refine etc. 
5. Click on the New Group and add about 10 commands from the list on the left (doesn't matter which ones)
6. Click OK. Now the useful search commands should be out of the way of the dropdown menu when making a search.

SOOOOOOO SAD that users feel forced to waste valuable time like @Erik with a K did in order to simply get this 'helpful' tool out of their way!  Disgusting.

Microsoft, please just put it back the way it was.  I am really at a loss as to why the search bar, that is within my email program, even offers suggestions for stuff outside of my email program!  If I need to browse the web, I'll just use a browser for that, not Outlook! (and not MS Edge, either!)

More over it does not function the same.  Try dragging and dropping a username into the search window.  I use to use search to find messages from specific machines with elaborate naming conventions. This would allow me to check the history of the alerts.  Now it's just broken.  But no surprise. Microsoft hates themselves and is always trying to be someone else.. 95% of the time with poor results. Zune, Bing, Surface, Azure, etc, etc.  Why not just concentrate on Windows and Office? 

    MS also has a habbit of refusing to face reality.  Have a nasty bug or security flaw that will be difficult to fix? Well, why not just ignore it?  

       For decades MS has been dodging an obvious fact: Outlook is not an email program. Users all treat it as a virtual filing cabinet. It is, first and foremost a database program.  Get your **** together and start treating it as such.

Microsoft - please bring my search box like it was before. This one at the top is so STUPID.

Thank you

I see this thread has already 23 pages, almost 2 years of communication, and most of people want to put the search field back, as it was before (as when open, it overlaps search controls).
How long more time will we wait for this ugly thing will be corrected ???

forever....forever ever?  forever ever.

Microsoft has made it clear they won't revert back and they'd much rather rationalize their awful mistake than fix it