Microsoft's Outlook: Cloudy with a chance of junk-mail-stuffed inboxes

Many Outlook users around the world woke up Monday morning to find a flood of spam and junk messages filling up their inboxes and they took to the internet to air their complaints. On social media sites like Reddit and Twitter as well as in questions sent to Microsoft Support, users complained that dozens of such messages that …

[Lil Endian]

It was a wild day-long ride for some

Fair go to them. I've gotta think back a few years to remember those days... I feel old!

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

No change notived here

Still using Netscape mail (now Seamonkey Mail). Junk filter trained for decades. Low failure rate.

[Steve Davies 3]

Lookout there is an Outlook problem

Are we down to Office 300 yet?

MS is really having a bad year yet... people and companies still want to spend increasing amounts of money with them and for what?

Increasingly shitty service that costs more $$$$. Yep, they have their business plan working well.

Stop using MS if you can. There are alternatives if you are brave enough to climb over their Seattle Tower sized wall to do it.

[Anonymous Coward]

HelloFresh

Is their most popular item spam?

[DJV]

"Outlook has been a source of recent frustration for users"

Only "recent"?

[Bondy]

At least The Reg is no longer binned.

For the last few years, no matter what I did with the filter, The Reg always ended up in the junk mail folder. I tried adding as a contact but the email address changes daily so this didn't work. Then suddenly, two weeks ago or so, The reg started hitting my inbox and staying there. Don't know whether the fix was on M$FT's part (probably) or the Reg's but happy to report I now waste 15-20 mins of each morning perusing my favourite online tech magazine.

[yetanotheraoc]

Re: At least The Reg is no longer binned.

"The reg started hitting my inbox"

They are working on the fix for that.

[PeterM42]

will be interesing to know what went wrong:

- An upgrade?

- A downgrade?

- New "Features"? (aka "Bugs")

- Someone pulled the plug on the server to vacuum the Data Centre?

- Disgruntled employee?

- Disgruntled about to be ex-employee?

- Banana skins on the server room floor?

Or was it just what we have come to expect? - Lack of testing, Poor change control, Incompetence?

We need to know.

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Re: will be interesing to know what went wrong:

Yes. All of the above.