How to switch back to old "Hotmail" interface layout? (Aug 2016)

Anonymous
2016-08-02T15:16:15+00:00

A few days ago my Hotmail e-mail account suddenly switch to the "Outlook" mail & layout (where the little blue line fills in across the screen under the "Outlook" icon....) I hate it! Why did it change & HOW CAN I SWITCH BACK TO THE OLD HOTMAIL FORMAT I WAS COMFORTABLE WITH ALL THESE YEARS???

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-12-29T17:44:51+00:00

    I don't mind the new formal so much (not that great) but the BCC is so erratic that I can't use it anymore it just keeps disappearing every time I click on an address, Some addresses also won't allow me to edit them, they disappear when I start to make a change to them so I have to use my phone to make the change. now I have to use Gmail for BCC letters.

    I would like to go back to Hotmail but its too late now. I may just quit using Outlook since its not that useable now. I'm using W8 Pro, everything is updated.

    Microsoft please fix these issues soon.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-12T13:07:42+00:00

    I think I will have to migrate to gmail.

    I hate the new version. I want the other one back.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-30T16:03:06+00:00

    I, too, hate the new interface. The previous one was much, much better. -- surely any changes should be improvements and make the service better. That is not the case here.

    1 -- Now the print in the Inbox is far too small.

    2 -- Worse still, now I cannot view an email in it's full width (as before) in the right side viewing pane.

          Now I can only read an email by scrolling right and left to read EVERY SINGLE LINE  --THIS IS RIDICULOUS !!

          Before, I could click on the arrow to expand the pane to the right (displacing the adverts) so the email could be      seen full width.

          I cannot find any way to do this on the new layout.

    I have a Hotmail.co.uk account and the previous interface/layout was excellent --- is there any way it can be changed back from this awful new one?

    Thankyou,     William Prince.

    Agree. The new interface is ****.

    1. Hard to even search for email on particular date...
    2. The advertisement on the side is so large that add with Left side panel cover >50% of my screen. Need to zoom out in order to see have enough space to see subject etc... but then the words are way to small for my eyes... Not tablet or microsoft surface friendly... ironically surface pro is from microsoft too....

    How to change back to the older layout?

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-11-19T18:14:48+00:00

    Hi there, my account has just changed too. I find it really annoying to use now.

    Particularly I used to be able to see the email address of the person who sent the message, which was really useful especially with all the fake emails I used to get pretending to be a friend, I could immediately see the real email address it had come from.

    Also I liked that flagged emails went to the top of the list, which was why I flagged them, now I still have to scroll down to find them.

    Thank you for listening.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-10-17T16:01:33+00:00

    I agree with you. I liked the old pages where it showed how many pages of emails you had by the page numbers at the bottom. Nothing like it used to be. I also have a real problem with the safe list and the sweep rules. I still get people not on my safe list or in my contacts in my inbox and people on my safe list in my junk emails and the "domains" don't work in the sweep rules.

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