The new Outlook.com
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Please vote on ideas you like. If you have a new idea that hasn’t been submitted by anyone else, submit it. If you have many ideas, submit them separately. This will help us decide what to build next.
We’ll reply to top issues, and will consider other suggestions as well. Thanks for trying the beta!
For more information, check out our help page.
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Files menu EXPANDED?? Why?!!!!
Why Outlook opens with Files menu expanded??!! I don't want that everyone may seen it!!
87 votesHi, thank you for your feedback! We were experimenting with this view, but decided not to keep it. You should see that the files menu has returned to the previous layout.
Thanks!
Colin -
Phishing spanish translation
You have mistranslated the word "phishing", you have translated it as "pesca" which is the Spanish word for "fishing". Either you put back phishing or you put identity theft, because "pesca" is ridiculous.
28 votesHi,
Thank you for the feedback. Our team has looked into this and made updates
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Move or hide the "Files" section on the left bar
The new section "Files" in the left bar (to access fast to the email attachments) should be moved below the main Mail Directories, because the main use of the interface is navigate between mails and not files.
33 voteswe were testing this bud decided not to move forward with this design. Thank you for the feedback.
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outlook theme colors
The colors for Outlook are now electric blue and slightly darker electric blue. Why? The Outlook colors were already there. Why remove them? Microsoft seems to take away more and more customer autonomy and personal expression with each update. We need to have themes and/or more colors re-added, please.
0 votesHi there – Thanks for using outlook.com. I just wanted to let you know that we do indeed have themes. If you click on the gear in the top right hand corner you can click and change to a variety of themes.
Thanks!
David Los
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Blocked emails going into deleted box
blocked mail going into deleted box when it was deleted on blocking
8 votesThanks for your feedback. When you block a sender, we will add that sender to your Blocked Senders list and also move that email to Deleted Items.
Colin
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Ads
I do not think ads should be able to track people they way you currently allow . Roger McNamee is right big tech is getting out of hand. Better opt out options are needed
Thanks Terry2 votesHi there – Thank you for using Outlook.com and for providing feedback. I did want to quickly let you know that there are a couple of options for our advertisments.
1) We offer an ad free experience for our Office 365 subscribers. Not only do you get ad free, but you also get other benefits like the office apps, as well as additional storage on OneDrive.
2) All ads that show up also have an ad choices icon. From there you are able to opt out of any targeting the ad providers use.
Thanks
David Los
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Advertising
Please add a "deactivate all" button to the advertising companies selection!
0 votesHi there – Thank you for providing feedback about Outlook.com.
We do offer an ad free experience, all Office 365 subscribers get ad free experience.
Thanks!
David Los
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Kudos
Since this time last year hotmail has certainly gotten better. I have several different email accounts with other entities and I must say your sign-in is the best. Don't change it, there's absolutely no reason to...
0 votesThank you for using Outlook.com! We really love to hear from our users! We will continuing to work to improve. Please keep feedback coming.
David Los
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Update Outlook so that email addresses with abnormal characters (not "special" or normal) can be blocked by command and rules.
There is A LOT, and I really mean A LOT, of spam mails that use email addresses which include characters that we don't normally find anywhere in ASCII. We need Outlook to become able to block and IMMEDIATELY REMOVE email addresses that include non-ASCII characters, very badly.
These email spammers are willing to make any nonsense character be inserted into the sending address at any cost, just to waste space and time.
26 votesThe fix for this should be rolling out over the next couple weeks!
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Deliver messages from blocked senders in the Junk Email folder as well as redeem the Quarantine message action configured list via spam filt
I would like messages from blocked senders to be delivered in the Junk Email folder with the Quarantine message action redeemed at the same time.
9 votesThanks for your feedback! We are going to continue delivering blocked emails to the Deleted Items folder.
Colin
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Add dark mode to outlook loading screen
Add dark mode to outlook loading screen
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Fix bug of Outlook.live.com page refreshing every second
Outlook.live.com page refreshing every second bug. no chrome extensions loaded at all. have to close chrome and open it back up again for normal function.
2 votesThis has been fixed. Thank you for reporting!
Colin
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Why don't allow us to log out?! Please direct us on how to log out.
Why don't allow us to log out?! Please direct us on how to log out.
39 votesThanks for your feedback! In order to log out, click on the profile icon in the top right corner of the window. This is a round icon with either your profile image or your initials.
When you click this icon, a pane will expand. “Sign out” is one of the options on this pane.
Colin
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I am not able to check my contact list alphabetically while sending email by clicking on new email .
I am not able to check my contact list alphabetically while sending email by clicking on new email .
178 votesAs of yesterday, the Contact Picker dialog has been returned to an alphabetical A-Z sort order. As many comments show, lots of Outlook.com users are already seeing the fixed behavior. If you do not observe this in your Outlook Web session, you will need to refresh your browser (or maybe even clear your cache).
Again, the sort order not being alphabetical A-Z was always a bug and was never by design.
You may be interested to know the next item on our plan for the Contact Picker: Soon, there will be a way to type letters and by so doing filter the list down to matching entries. This means you shouldn’t need to scroll over and over, in the future.
Thanks for your continued support.
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No logout
Log Out does not show in drop down box - I have to exit by hitting the Outlook address block which still leaves me signed in.
5 votesYou can find the option to sign out by clicking on your persona icon (your account picture) in the top right corner. This will open a pane that has the option to Sign Out.
Colin
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Mutiple attachments at once, misses out the last one
When I attach multiple files in a single e-mail, very often, the last one fails to get attached, even though it shows up as attached when i'm on the composing screen.
0 votesHey there!
Thank you for using Outlook.com and reaching out to us regarding your recent experience.
Currently, this channel is dedicated to feedback requests only, but we recently added in-app support to assist you with your questions and concerns.
To contact in-app support please use the following steps:
Sign into your email account on any web browser on a pc or Mac, www.outlook.com .
Click the ? in the top menu bar to open the Help pane.
Click on the Help link toward the bottom of the pane to open the Contact Support box.
We look forward to assisting you there!
All the best
The Outlook Team
PS: Please use the Help Section of the app for any questions, we are not able to see replies to this address.
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Automatically Block Entire Domain if 3 or More Emails Blocked w/Same Domain
Automatically block an entire email domain if a user has blocked three or more email addresses of the same domain.
(excluding major domains like Gmail, Live, Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc)
Example:
adfaqxamafe@uniquedomain.com
iuyw@uniquedomain.comIf necessary, include a setting to disable/enable this rule.
23 votesThanks for the suggestion! Our spam/junk team is looking into improvements for blocked senders in the next couple months.
Colin
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BLOCK/STOP ALL ADS
BLOCK ALL ADS
I WOULD RATHER LOOK AT THIS THAN ANY ADS
STOP THE AD HARRASSMENT119 votesThanks for your feedback! In order to support Outlook.com as a free service, we partner with advertisers to fund our development costs.
We offer an ad-free version of Outlook.com if you upgrade to O365, which you can do here: https://w2.outlook.com/l/upsell?
Colin
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Junk Folder Overflowing with Junk
I have 66 junk e-mails, it's too much to sift through in case a legitimate e-mail was put in my junk folder. Please: if it's 100% certified junk don't even put it in the junk folder. If the system isn't sure, then yeah go ahead and put it in there. You can be pretty certain e-mails like "russian beauty" and "rock hard *****" are junk - I don't even want to read them. Please fix this system it's a glaring issue.
14 votesThanks for your feedback, and sorry to hear that you’re having this issue. Our team is working on it currently.
Colin
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Block unwanted mail
PLEASE add BLOCK to the Delete Box. That should be so easy for you to do.
Thank you.76 votesThanks for your feedback! The block option is available under the “Junk v” dropdown in the command bar.
Colin
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