Configuring preferences and options in Outlook.com
I agree they have not fixed it. I have not see an attempt to do so.
Due to my work I managed to reach into Microsoft management and raised the concern about this bug in writing.
The the written response was "its not a bug, it's designed to do this."
Since Outlook web and Outlook desktop apps behave different (the web version works perfectly) one of the two interfaces must have a bug - no matter how Microsoft tries to argue this.
For whatever reason, they are failing to recognise this problem and failing to listen to Customers and failing to act. Pretty poor.
I suspect their support agents are outsourced and can only see the "working" Outlook for Web version.