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title seems self explanatory
Configuring preferences and options in Outlook.com
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Yep cant agree more absoloutley HATE them dam boreing useless adverts even on my massive screen they take up space, my answer is if you have office installed set up Hotmail through Outlook, very easy to do just google the settings and wALAHAHHHHA No friggin boreing adverts.
I think that it makes a laughing stock of Microsoft when I can actually see more of an email when I access it on my phone than I can when I access it on a computer.
Yep. If typing was easier on a phone or tablet, I might be able to live with this "upgrade".
Then again, it is nice for Microsoft to offer for me to pay for them to go away........
The sidebar ads absolutely SUCK.
I have had this email address for 15+ years. I WILL give it up to get rid of a feature that limits the useability of this account.
I have a large monitor and still can't find a good split that allows both the (required???) screens AND this stupid sidebar.
I also find it annoying that I had to sign up for THIS service just to comment on this stupid "upgrade".
Shows how amazing this side bar works when I didn't even realise that they were adverts it was showing me. Thought it was just different links to other parts of Outlook that i didn't use. Like most people I will NEVER click on ads like this, that are significantly over intrusive. So not only are they a waste of space time and money they are just detrimental to the success of a company like Microsoft as people will move to different e-mail accounts. I access my e-mails on my net book and now most of the time approximately 20% of my screen is the email I want to read and the rest of the screen is taken up with ridiculously large writing or things I will never click on. I wanted to cry the day that my hotmail changed over to Outlook. I was like going from a good e-mail system to going to one that a 3 year old had designed. I think that it makes a laughing stock of Microsoft when I can actually see more of an email when I access it on my phone than I can when I access it on a computer.