I know there are other threads about this....some even going back to 2012, pre-Outlook.... clearly nothing has been done by Microsoft, 

Indeed I am not seeing any responses from them either.

I think they just leave us here to let off steam together.

Outlook has been dreadful in terms of much weaker anti-spam precautions - lots of threads on here about blatant filth and phishing getting into our Junk folders.

But in the past two days, it just got worse.  Apparently Outlook is now incapable of even applying its own filters to put non-contacts and non-safe addresses directly in Junk - they are getting into my Inbox.    This is completely unacceptable.  I thought the big tech companies hired genius hackers to stay one step ahead of this rubbish?   Have all the Microsoft gurus left and gone to Google and Apple?

Microsoft, please wake up.  Read the thousands of complaints on here about your substandard Outlook freemail product (hopefully having nothing more in common than name with the industry-standard business product) and FIX IT!

Rant over.  VERY unhappy user here.