Tried to login to outlook. Received Error code: STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW

You're spot on. What a waste of millions of people's time, hours of work, etc.

I'm thinking about starting to denounce it on social media.

Clara G

Thank you for the advice, I am not sure how to update Chrome to version 126.0.6478.62.

Any help would be very greatly appreciated,

Jonathan Herring

Microsoft finds this occurs with EDGE browsers version starting with 109.

I have had the same version for months.

This error occurred within the last week, with no change on my part.

Microsoft decided HOTMAIL/OUTLOOK customers who were not using windows 10 or

windows 11 would have to go elsewhere or use a non-Microsoft browser.

IOW, they flipped a switch to cause the error and deny access.

As a former IT person, doing that to customers is viewed as arrogance and an insult.

That's how I take it.

The worst thing, IMO, is that they did 'whatever' without any notice.

That caused a lot of searching for answers, especially when the error message

indicates to 'try again, open a new page, refresh this page' etc.

A nicer thing to do would have been a message along the lines of:

"we changed things so your OS is no longer supported

using the software that we provided, go buy a new computer."

Instead they wasted a lot of peoples' time searching for a fix that did not and

will not exist.

Haughty and arrogant seem to fit the bill as adjectives for their choices.

For everyone wondering about Firefox on Win 7, on top of the ESR version mentioned by others, you can also try Pale Moon ( https://www.palemoon.org ) which is the one FF fork still supported on W7, and it even has a portable version that you don't need to actually install to use. But it's VERY resource hungry and painfully slow, basically don't expect to be able to do much else on the computer, especially on one with 4 Gb of RAM or less, with it running, so it's for one purpose only really.

But the reply I got on another topic makes me fear that all of these workarounds are just temporary and soon even they will stop working, see the replies from Diane Poremsky on https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/outlk_win-outtop_classic-outsub_ofh/outlookcom-wont-load/139ec8b2-2b29-49d2-864f-aa26c8b40173 and this article that she pointed me to: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook-blog/keeping-our-outlook-personal-email-users-safe-reinforcing-our/ba-p/4164184