The color scheme used by the new Outlook.com Beta Calendar - particularly on the Month view, which this feedback is referring to - is a huge step backwards in user-friendliness and accessible design.

I make extensive use of categories in my calendar, with each category using a different color. With the pre-beta Outlook.com Calendar, the calendar appointments on the Month view were displayed as a solid, high-contrast, rectangular block of bold color with the title in bold text inside the block. The colors and styling closely matched those used in the Outlook 2016 desktop client, which made it very easy to visually identify the appointments when switching between desktop and web clients, and the boldness of the colors made it easy to identify the different categories, and to see how "busy" or full the current month was looking, at a glance.

However, with the new Beta Calendar in Outlook.com, the page looks washed out, bland, dull and dreary. There's hardly any color anywhere on the page. Depending on the category used by each appointment, most appointments now just consist of very light-colored, low-contrast text with no rectangular block of color in the background at all. The text itself has some color, but again it's so light that it's nearly impossible to tell the text colors apart from each other.

Some of the appointments do have a rectangular block of color behind the text, but the block color is now super light and difficult to see, rather than nice and bold as before.

As a result, it's now very difficult to tell the categories apart from each other, especially for the appointments which no longer show a rectangular block of color behind the appointment title (which is the majority of them).

This also means the degree of contrast between text and background color is very poor, which is a big problem for those of us suffering from visual impairments, such as cataracts, which directly hinder the ability to read low-contrast text. As a result, the new calendar fails badly in the area of Accessible Design. It should be noted that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 states that text should have a contrast ratio at least 4.5:1. The new Beta Calendar utterly and completely fails this requirement, and therefore shows a total disregard for Microsoft's visually-impaired users - including paying customers who have purchased Office 365.

Microsoft's web designers would do well to read and learn from this article on the importance of good contrast for web text:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/low-contrast/

At the very least, Microsoft should allow the user to choose the color scheme used by the calendar appointments, by offering a choice between the old, bold color scheme - as used by Outlook 2016 on the desktop - and the newer, washed-out, low-contrast scheme used by the current beta. Then customers can decide for themseleves which they prefer.

I should also point out that the calendar month widget shown in the left-hand sidebar of the calendar page has also lost the background coloring that previously was shown to highlight the days of the current month. Now, the widget uses the same background coloring for all the days in the widget, including the last few days of the previous month and the first few days of the next month, which is not helpful.

When I send an email to friends, each message is sent separately even when I respond to an existing message. Which causes the load in my friends mailbox because if I write 10 messages instead of reaching as one message it comes in 10 messages.
Also in my box it appears about 10 posts which means that my box is also overloaded.
I corresponded a long time ago at Microsoft Community and have not been able to help me out there so I'm turning here. You might want to look there and see the attached pictures to figure out some serious problem.
https://answers.microsoft.com/he-il/outlook_com/forum/oemail-osend/%D7%90%D7%90%D7%95%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A7/eeb8074c-7acc-4e2e-a776-a79d259bcb7c?messageId=284e57c0-22c7-4de5-b549-ac6bd848d2f9&page=1

Would appreciate help

PLEASE HELP WITH JUNK and SPAM!

I am getting A TON of really inappropriate and obviously spam e-mails. Whatever MSN and Hotmail are currently doing to ensure these do not come to our mailboxes (ANY folder, including JUNK - I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS!) is not working. Can I PLEASE speak to someone about this problem. It's been increasing over the last year and I'm really tired of it. It's not appropriate and these are very clearly not "real" e-mails. I do not have time in the day to block individually. PLEASE contact me about this problem. I'm terribly upset - I probably get 20 to 30 of these a day, if not more.

Pascal

This No Longer Works
1) Select the item in the message list
2) Select the “Junk” dropdown in the top level menu bar
3) Select “Block”
I tried to block some unwanted senders today and the Block Sender NOW DOES NOT WORK. I sent 10 Sender To The Block List and none of them went to the list. I selected 1 at a time and tried to block it and it still did not go too my list. DO YOU TEST YOUR FIXES OR EXPECT CUSTOMERS TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT??? How Do I Block Them Now Have To Write Down Every Address & Hand Type Into You ADD Line In The Block Sender Section???? Waste Of My Time!!!!