Contacts Missing From "New" Outlook After Upgrade From Windows Mail

I use a single computer version of Outlook and this morning, after an apparent update, my Contacts were gone. Mail and Calendar are still there. I switched off the "new" Outlook but still gone. Is there anything I can do to recover them?

This worked for me. Went into Windows Mail/Contacts/Settings/Filter Contacts and found that Recent Contacts was not ticked. Ticked it and my contacts returned. How it got turned off is a mystery as I had never been in this area before. However, this was when I reverted to the 'old' Windows Mail. I have since updated to Outlook without a problem.

Later - I spoke too soon. My contacts did not appear in Outlook when I changed to that. I tried every solution offered by the net but none of them applied to my Tiscali account. In the end I was obliged to revert to the old Mail, write them out by hand, update to Outlook and enter them as New contacts. Total pain.

What the hell are your idiot, insipid primates doing???? can't find contacts What a poor operation for the common person Just fix my email and don't respond. Getting real sick of this microsoft operation

It is a bit hard to remember what I did exactly, but it came down to:

• When I opened contact, I only saw favorites . Favorites was empty
• I removed favorites,
• boom. All my contacts appeared

An email client with no visible contacts list? Contacts are at the very heart of emails! Never mind a "work in progress", it's an absolute heap of junk - apart from the contacts issue, it's slower to load and over-complicated. Whatever business users might be perceived to need, there are millions of ordinary users who simply do not need an all-singing, all-dancing integrated suite. And to force us to use it, you withdraw support for the old email client.

Shame on you, Microsoft, for expecting your (forced) "customers" to accept a substandard product.