Outlook search bar moved to the title!?

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!)

My main gripe with this move was the fact that the dropdown menu with "Suggested Searches" covered the search tool buttons (from, subject, has attachments and so on). I know you can click somewhere to remove it, but sometimes it comes back, or you accidentally move the window, and even when it works that one click is one too much. 

Now I've found the most awkward workaround, but I think it helps. Here goes:

1. Right-click on the tiny arrow down button to the left of the search field. A menu should pop up saying "Customize quick access tool bar". Click on "more commands" from this menu.
2. Now you get to the Outlook options, with the option to add more stuff to the quick access tool bar.
3. Add ALL of the available commands by hitting the "Add>>" button repeatedly. It doesn't matter what they do; you can also add about 100 separators if you rather prefer that. Click OK. 
4. Now all of the new commands available in the quick access toolbar will have pushed the search field to the right, hopefully to the point where, when you search for something, the drop-down menu doesn't cover the buttons anymore.

There. I SAID it was awkward. 

You can of course go back and fine-tune this, or revert back to the original if you didn't like it (there's even a reset button for this).

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