Yet another example of how Microsoft is going backwards in functionality and stability.  Rather than improving a system that worked in spite of a few flaws, they decided to completely redesign everything to make the GUI horrible to look at, the workflow more convoluted than before, and add several new stability issues to the original flaws, which BTW still exist.

 

Having said that, is there any way to recover Hotmail (Outlook, whatever) after designating an email as Junk?  Whenever I click the "Junk" button, the email is moved into the Junk folder, as it should, and the screen returns to the Inbox list, which is fine.  But from that point on in the session, clicking on an email does NOT open the email.  It marks it as "Read", but does not actually show it.  This is obviously due to a linkage error in the code, which is part of the complaint in the first paragraph.  So many "features" were added by unskilled programmers who do not follow up on how their feature case effects the rest of the system. 

 

Apparently the only way to resolve this issue is to close Internet Explorer and log back in.  It's bad enough that I now hove to log off and log back in for each of my email addresses (again going back to the notion of Microsoft software going backwards in functionality and stability), but I also have to shutdown Internet Explorer and restart, then log back in every time I designate an email as "Junk".  And with all of the junk that Hotmail allows slip through, that's a lot of wasted effort.  But I guess Microsoft knows a lot about that subject.

 

The irony is, as someone here at work showed me, this issue doesn't occur in Chrome.   Hmm.  So this is an Internet Explorer issue?  Well maybe I should be blaming the company that makes Internet Explo-    oooooh, that's right.  It's the same company.  Interesting how Microsoft can't even make stable software that works with OTHER software which they make themselves!  Looks like Google at least knows how to make stable software.   Perhaps I should just make a gmail account.

 

Holosim

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