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A very dangerous behavior in the new outlook is that hoving the mouse pointer over a hyperlink in an email no longer displays the actual URL of the link.
Seeing the true URL is the #1 way people can avoid getting email scammed. Removing this tool is inviting people to get defrauded. This should not be a default behavior and I cannot see how to resolve this.
Using New Outlook on Windows for professional communication and productivity
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One (sort of) workaround to the issue of New Outlook not showing URLs on mouse over is to click hold and drag the link. It doesn't show the full URL but at least some of it. Just be careful not to click and release, you have to click, hold, drag and then release.
Still no updates on this at all???
I'm on build 1.2024.725.400 (Production) and it's not displaying any URL's.
I'm appalled at this point. This hyperlink issue along with ads to truely fraudulent content pushed me to finally stop using outlook. I moved to Thunderbird and have got it functioning mostly the way I want.
We don't want to preview links. Seeing a picture of what the destination site looks like doesn't remotely solve the security issue of not knowing what the actual URL is. Scammers have gotten really good at making websites that look like official Microsoft Sites, Banking Sites, Retailer Sites.
I know that if I go to www.bankofmychoice.ca/myaccount I'm safe but if I go to www.bankofmychoice.america.co/myaccount that I'm going to an unsafe site. This shouldn't be a difficult concept and I'm alarmed that people at microsoft aren't alarmed by this and haven't done a day 1 fix.