Task bar moved from bottom of screen to the side of screen (I can not figure out how to fix this)

Well, I came in to work very early this morning and found this dreadful change to the Outlook toolbar. I even called our company's IT, of course, to no avail, since Microsoft had the most inane idea of changing the position to a "galaxy far, far away". This extra move to find the icons, especially when I am preparing call schedules, clinic schedules, when I go back an forth between emails and calendars, is more than annoying: it is a waste of time. I know that Microsoft will not do anything even if we revolt because they even took away the option for changing the view to its previous version. Needless to say, I am not a happy customer. I will stick to Apple on my personal devices; however, I spend more time at work than on personal time.

I am reading these instructions only 11 days after your comment that this worked. I went ahead and followed the steps to get to a dead end as under Advanced Options the "Show Apps in Outlook" is no longer available. I am fuming.

Thank you for this article to understand the techies' thought process. If their intent is to use it for launching apps like Word, Excel, etc, and to enhance Teams (which is more cumbersome than Zoom), thanks, but no thanks. I can access them readily from my taskbar, which is at the BOTTOM of the screen, not where they are imitating the movie "Up".

This works:

File => Options => Advanced => [uncheck the box] Show Apps in Outlook => Restart Outlook