New Outlook.com (Hotmail) sign-in page : Autofill/Autocomplete not working?

Anonymous
2016-04-02T15:18:21+00:00

Today a new style of sign-in page appeared for Outlook.com (Hotmail) — and autofill/autocomplete doesn't work for the e-mail address field!

I have several e-mail addresses, and until now I've only needed to enter the first letter to get the dropdown list. Now there's no dropdown list. I have to type the full e-mail address each time I sign in. As I often switch between accounts, and you have to sign out of one to be able to sign in to another, this loss of autofill is very frustrating and time-wasting.

It's not a browser-related problem: it happens in 3 different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE).

It's not computer-related: it happens on 3 different computers.

It happens only with the Outlook.com (Hotmail) sign-in. On other websites, autofill still works for e-mail address fields.

I can only assume that Microsoft's developers have blocked autofill/autocomplete on this new sign-in page. If this is a deliberate choice, then why? It's extremely annoying and time-wasting. If it's just a mistake, I hope that MS will correct it very quickly.

Has anyone else discovered the problem?  Does anyone have a solution or a workaround?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-07-17T00:26:41+00:00

    Alas, this is the world we live in now. It's not just Microsoft. The trend now is to outsource and specialize and modularize and .....you get the idea. This applies to most customer service. You call a local number, you think you are speaking to your neighborhood store but it is someone hundreds of miles away, often thousands of miles away in another country. You call 4 different people, you get 4 different answers. Most don't have a clue, many don't give a damn. I don't think you can blame individuals - they're just trying to earn a living and make ends meet. It's the whole structure of modern business and globalization. We just need to help each other and find workarounds to solve our problems. I did post my workaround to this problem in another forum, here →         http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oaccount-oother/autofill-disabled-on-new-microsoft-login-page/b68a53b8-3272-4916-b6e9-b0cd07285e6d?page=4

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