Hi Stewart Mack and ColinParrish,
Thank you for letting us know that you are experiencing same issue. We understand where you are coming from but as what have Alden D. said on his post last March 13, there is no option to stop being directed to the said websites after logging out from Outlook.com.
You can send us your feedback or feature request at here.
We appreciate your understanding with this.
Regards!
Surely there as an option to choose which MSN Page you sign out to? I have no interest in a USA MSNPage, so would like to close outlook to 9MSN page as before. I know you need to blast me with advertising, just not Merican please.